Pete and I made a new friend recently on one of the bloodhound pages we follow. Bloodhound Willie and his daddy, Scott, live just a few miles from us. I had been wanting to take Pete and Nala to the dog park close to our home to let them make some friends and just run and play like dogs should. Our new friend invited us to meet them yesterday. It was a fun, cold afternoon watching all the pups. All but Nala were purebred dogs. Nala was not intimidated by all the pedigrees. There were two goofy bloodhounds, a gainfully employed black lab (law enforcement officer) two Hungarian Kuvasz, a Labradoodle, a West Highland Terrier, and our Nala girl. And I have to say that she is smarter than any of the others and just as beautiful.
The experience was new to us – our first time at a dog park. I know, right??? Why have our dogs been hiding us??? 🙂 At the entrance to the park, there is a small, double gated area. As you enter and close the first gate, you find yourself in a very small enclosed area, and then there is another small gate that opens up into an expanse of doggo paradise where they can run, smell, fellowship :), tromp through and across a small creek and play to their hearts’ delight. It was a beautiful, albeit cold, fun afternoon!
I was reminded of that gate this morning as I read Matthew 7:14: “The gate is small, and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few that find it.”
THE gate. Ah that small gate. Trying to guide ourselves and two dogs through…
But ohhhh THAT GATE! It doesn’t discriminate or care if we have a pedigree, or a job, or are rich or poor or smart or beautiful, or any of that. We just have to follow THE LEAD. If we can just, with the help of the Good Lord above, maneuver ourselves through that gate, what an expanse of eternal bliss we shall have!!!!
Eucharisteo
January 22, 2024
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