Good Dog

As an introductory post, the introduction will be very brief--as will this post--and most other posts. But I hope they can teach you something or make you laugh. Hopefully both.

This weekend I spent some time with the Gateway Worship team. We always have a good time between servicies, laughing together, talking about God and several other things. Praying before service once, Ps. Walker was asking if we had recieved any divine inspiration. Generaly someone to provide a good word, Mr. Ryan Boles provided some theological insight. He explained to us that he had recently been housesitting for an ugly little picanese dog with the classic ugly-dog underbite. One of his analogies escapes me, but the second one struck me as pretty important. He, under some circumstance said he was vacuuming a house with the dog around. The dog was struck with terror from the moment the motor in the vacuum cleaner whirred to its noisy start. Ryan, proceeding to vacuum despite being quite annoyed at the barking animal, thought to himself "Dog, come on, it's just a vacuum. Look at you, you're just a dog afraid of a vacuum." He said that God told him instantly "Ryan, look at you, it's just a vacuum! You are a dog afraid of a silly vacuum!" Sometimes I go through life and fear things that I don't think (and usually, I'm right) I can overcome. We are right! As it was, the dog could not take on the vicious house cleaning monster. But our God is bigger than the vacuum--our problems and can turn them off and stuff them in the closet if we trust in him.

One more thing, Ryan said something to this effect that just warmed my little undeveloped soul: "Ryan, I think it was yesterday that I was looking at you--and you were doing something weird. But at that moment God showed me how much he loves you. He loves you a lot. Like, dang... I was jealous there for a bit." God loves us all the same... so you should feel just as special as I did!

To close, Water Of Life church in Plano is some MESSED UP stuff.