On the Leash
We have a sweet little dog - her name is Pebbles. She's really not my dog, she belongs to our daughter. However, of late, she's pretty attached to me and me to her. She may just be a sweet little chihuahua - and YES, some chihuahua's can be sweet... but she teaches me a lot. I remember reading a book one time about worship. The author compared the dog's attention and focus on it's master to what it is to worship. It was a pretty good analogy. I think of it often when my dog is all over me wanting attention. But there is something more about God, spiritual things, and life that Pebbles teaches me. Today as I was walking her in the yard I was thinking about the leash. Sometimes I'd like to just let her off the leash and let her run free. But I can't. It is really too dangerous for her to run free. We have neighbor dogs and she was attacked by one before - we don't have a lot of traffic but as small as she is... and then I worry if ...