what good is it if you love those who don't creepify you?

jon and i are learning a new circumstance under which to persevere in love: creeped-out-ness.

God is turning our eyes from us to others, slowly and sometimes in ebbs and flows, but surely. one demographic He has been giving us eyes to see is our neighbors. we've had lots of, hopefully, first conversations with them. one enclave of these neighbors lives on the street behind us and all of these are children (with which we've talked and spent quite a bit of time). one particular little boy, probably around 7, spends a considerable amount of time with jon, waiting for him when he knows jon will come home from work, mowing with jon, gardening with jon. and all of this, we've been excited about because we want to know, not just know about, our neighbors, loving them, showing them Jesus by our lives (hopefully), but jon just had a little interview with this boy that left us quite creeped out. the interviewee was jon.

interviewer
jon, what's the password to your garage?

interviewee
you don't need to know that.

interviewer
hmmm. what's upstairs in the garage?

interviewee
just some cardboard

interviewer
oh. how much do you make?

interviewee
enough

these are the first of their kind from this boy. and if we didn't both have a lot of experience with children, this maybe wouldn't concern us, but we do and have never been asked questions like this albeit maybe the question about income, but never questions like this in a line of unrelenting interest. we're concerned that they maybe came from his parents; we think from his and his sisters' comments that their family life isn't the best. anyway, before we loved them easily because of them - their obedience and the like - now, we're learning to love them because of God. another facet of knowing what luke said in chapter 6, verses 36-39.