Trust With All Your Heart!

So today has not been the greatest day for me and to be perfectly honest, I really don’t feel like writing, but I know in my heart that writing is exactly what I need to do right now.

I know I had mentioned a few weeks ago that my dog had been really sick, but that sickness opened up a wonderful conversation about God between my daughter and me.  Well he got better and now he is very sick once again.  Apparently the infection that he had earlier has attacked his kidneys and the outcome is usually fatal.  In fact my vet told me today that he has never had a dog survive that showed such high kidney counts.  So that is where I am at right now.  I know to some people it is just a dog, but he is my dog, he is extremely special to me and my family and we love him tremendously!  I know some people can’t understand that and maybe I shouldn’t care about him so much, but I just can’t help it---I do not have it in me not to fall head over heals for every little dog that I am blessed to have, and he is certainly no different!  To put it simply he loves us unconditionally and brings our family much happiness!  You know I think a dog’s love is such a great demonstration of God’s love for us.  A dog loves its family unconditionally, no matter what we do to them---we can feed them a lot or a little, we can give them the finest bedding or no bedding at all, we can give them a lot of attention or no attention, we can even abuse them, but no matter what we do or don’t do they still show love toward us.  Sound familiar? 

So if he survives this, he will be my miracle dog that will remind me of how great my God is and to never doubt what He is capable of, which is anything!  And if he doesn’t, the love and loyalty that I have learned from him will continue to remind me of how great my God is and to never doubt that He is in control even when I don’t understand the whys of this life.

God put this scripture on my heart Saturday…Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;  in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6, and I have been thinking about it every since, today I have said it to myself over and over again.  You see I do have a lot to learn, but I am learning to trust, completely trust with all my heart, in my Savior even when I don’t understand because I know, I know, I know, that everything will work out for the Glory of God!