Right now, we have a ten-week-old giant of a puppy and a seven-year-old dog on deployment until August. One is male and the other female. The puppy is WIDE open, and the older dog likes her quiet privacy. One came from the humane society down the road, and the other from a loving home in Japan.
Learning to live and love in a space with complete opposites has been a challenge. There has been lots of barking, lots of begging (on the human part), and lots of frustration for both dogs and us.
In the midst of the joyful chaos, a memory of my time as a young mother came to mind this week. When my daughters were exhausted from a day at the beach or on the last nerve of the other, we would turn to public radio and listen to the summer classical stories.
This apparently works for dogs as well! Now it’s a podcast instead of radio, but who knew “The Wish Fish” with Tchaikovsky playing in the background would calm them both?!
The lesson for us all is that no matter how far apart we seem, there is something that unites us! Maybe if we spent more time exploring those things that we love, the other differences would start to fade away.
What if our common relationship with Christ was where we focused, and the rest began to shrink away with overwhelming love now in a clear, unobstructed view? What if?
“In Christ’s family there can be no division into Jew and non-Jew, slave and free, male and female. Among us you are all equal. That is, we are all in a common relationship with Jesus Christ. Also, since you are Christ’s family, then you are Abraham’s famous ‘descendant,’ heirs according to the covenant promises.”
Galatians 3:28-29 MSG
Blessings,
Kim
photo credits: Kim Rice Smith