This is one of eighteen pictures that my good friend Harry Shepherd sent me today. While any one of them could have been used for a post, I chose this one because it shows how caring and communicative an animal can be. Perhaps another word for this would be loving...
1 Corinthians, Chapter 13
4 Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, 5 doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; 6 doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; 10 but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with. 11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known. 13 But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
I wake each day and by the time my feet hit the floor, two little poodles are running in to see me; excited as can be, with their tails wagging faster than seems possible. I wonder, why do dogs care about us, anyway? I doubt I will ever know the answer, but some things just need to be experienced. Love is one of those things!!! Today, tell someone how you feel about them, do something for them, embrace them affectionately!!! And just think- you can do all of this- WITHOUT EVEN HAVING A TAIL!!!!
PS. Thanks for sending me the pictures, Harry!!!