Dog Hair

Our dog is a wonderful chocolate lab named Bailey. She is one of the sweetest dogs I have ever known. She can be remarkably stupid (the day she ate 15 white candles she found in the garage), and incredibly bright (one day she found a portable radio we had lost in the woods at my parents, how did she know that was what we were out looking for?). We love her very much. I just wish she did not shed! We continually joke about teaching her to run the vacuum. Man if we could teach her to do that my house would actually appear fairly clean, but I just don't see that happening.

In reality I guess we're all like that. We offer some incredibly good things, some remarkably stupid, and in the end we all have some sort of "dog hair." Something that others would change about us, that is just part of who we are. We also see it in others. How many times have you thought, "if I could just change X about so-and-so." I am beginning to realize that having life abundantly, as Christ calls us to (The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. John 10:10), means accepting the things that make us crazy and learning to appreciate the rest. I mean, come on, if I can do it with my dog, surely I can do it with the people in my life too!