https://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/04/04/photo-challenge-threshold/ Have you ever loved and been loved by a dog? There’s a beautiful thing, a thing we should learn from dogs. Every encounter is fresh, like it’s the first. They don’t collect relationship baggage. They don’t keep score. They don’t hide their feelings and vulnerability. A dog is all in, all the time. It’s […]

http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/11/08/weekly-photo-challenge-habit/ Habits. They shape and control our lives. I start my mornings with Bible reading, prayer, and coffee. It’s a comforting ritual that both awakens me and re-calibrates my soul before I have too many encounters with outside interruptions. I recently came across the first dog collar I bought many years ago for a 7 […]

I often answered the same two questions when meeting children as I walked my dog Chelsea. “Is she like the dog from Lady and the Tramp?” Immediately followed by, “Can I pet her?” The answer to both was always yes. She was simply the best dog ever. She was also a minor miracle, although that […]