It's a sad day in our home, because our dog died this morning. We were planning it, but that doesn't make it easier. We had to put him down. M' is particularly sad, as this was his dog.
You can't really get away from death. Unfortunately, it's very interwoven into our lives.
Which makes me lively company today. Don't I sound cheery and uplifting?
I am still thinking on the book I read. There are all of these provocative concepts rolling about in my limited brain. One which struck me, is that God doesn't get disappointed with me, as I understand disappointment, because He doesn't expect me to be different than I am. This sure flies in the face of the guilt I so often cloak myself with, for being less than perfect.
I so often try to be polite and appropriate with God. Like a hypocritical propriety. It's quite ridiculous, really. God is neither surprised, nor shocked, at who I am. Sometimes I try so hard to hide myself from others, or to hide from myself....but to hide from God seems so bizarre. I suppose it's what they tried to do back in the garden of Eden. It didn't work for them, either.
Now, the kids are going to go watch a movie, and I am going to take a nap. I love naps. Do you think we'll have nap time in Heaven?
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Nap time in heaven is a certainty. I would stake my life on it!
Also, is the dog incident related to the dog bite from earlier? Either way this is sad, sad news.
Yes, our sweet Sarge bit a little one quite viciously. We established with the Vet that Sarge was a 'fear biter' and therefore quite dangerous going forward.
10 thumbs up for naps!
I read this from M. Scott Peck this morning...somehow what you said about God and the garden of Eden brought me here...would love to know your thoughts.
" Although it is an ambiguous notion, consider 'original sin.' Mythologically,the concept is derived from Genesis 3, the story of how the serpent beguiled Adam and Eve to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil despite the fact that God had commanded them not to eat it. In pondering why this disobedience might have been such a sin, it occurred to me that God may have been in the habit of strolling through the Garden of Eden, routinely conversing with the pair. If so, how was it that Adam and Eve hadn't asked, "Hey, God, why don't you want us to eat the fruit?" (italics on why) I began to wonder if the great sin was not so much disobedience as the failure to ask questions of God (of Life)."
Send my love to the boys...I'm so sorry about Sarge.
-J
I have wondered where, exactly, the sin occured. Adam is counted as the originator, rather than Eve. That makes me think that his sin was in not protecting her from the beguiling of the evil one.
Interesting question!
It is hard to do the "right thing" with an older or crippled animal. But, sometimes we have to make the hard choice and put them out of their suffering. Guess that is why man was given the choice over animals, be can better understand their situation than they can. They have no hope when they are in pain or disabled, unlike us whom hope for that "better" day...
Hugs to M, been there too many times myself.
kjp
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