“OF LITTLE DOGS AND BIG PRIORITIES”
I was getting ready very early this morning, preparing to go and teach at the university where I adjunct. I must have rattled around too much. My wife got up.
So did our little dog, who sleeps with my wife most nights. My lovely lady got up for a little while, and our dog got up too—very reluctantly. I took the dog outside to do her business. She got right down to business, and was ready to go back in, and go back to bed.
My wife was in the kitchen finishing packing for me. Our dog ran full-tilt right by my wife and jumped in the bed.
My wife said, “It’s a good thing I left my door open. Otherwise, she would have run right into it!”
True enough!
I said, “I was going to give her a little treat for taking care of business right away.” I paused, waiting to hear our little one’s galloping paws.
Nothing.
I said it again, a little bit louder this time. “I was going to give her a treat.”
A pause. Still nothing.
“I was going to give her a TREAT.”
Finally, we heard the thump of our dog jumping off the bed. She ran into the kitchen, got her treat, and ran full-tilt with it in her mouth back to my wife’s bed.
My wife and I looked at one another and laughed. Our dog was not going to be denied her “momma time!”
I like the things that God gives to me. Food, drinkable water, a house, work that I love to do—all these and 10,000 other blessings per day. These are all wonderful. They go way beyond treats.
But the main thing is to spend time with God. His Presence is the thing, the thing that is beyond any gift that he gives me.
I am not going to be denied my “Heavenly Father time!”
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