Once again, another good day and this good day started last night. After I got off work last night, I went home and did my usual thing. I spoke to the wife, got into some comfortable clothes and took Maui (the dog) out. As soon as we got outside, he begin to do his business with no hesitation. I was really proud of him and told him I was. Yes, I talk to my dog as if he is human (don't knock until you have had a house dog...I use to think the same way). After we came back inside, my wife feed him because his stomach was growling. Yes, for a split second I was a bad owner because I didn't feed him and I didn't hear his stomach growling. Thank God for wives! Because he is confined to his cage do to his illness, we put his food in the cage with him right in the front. He usually eats and when he is finish he will just sit there and stare at you as if he was saying, ok I'm done, get this out of my cage. Well, last night he had other things on his mind. I was eating as well not really paying him any attention but I could see him out the corner of my eye. Once he finished his food, he leaped over his food bowl nad ran over beside the couch where I was sitting and sat right beside me.
You might be saying to yourself, 'what's so great about that?' Well, the great thing about it is that a few weeks ago, he could barely mve his back legs because of the disease that he has. That leap of faith he took shows that he is improving. And it also shows that he is tired of being in his cage all the time. It happened so quick until I couldn't beleive it. I yelled for my wife and she couldn't hear me because she had the shower running so I ran into the room and told her to come look. When she got in the living room she was like, what am I looking at. I told her to just look at how everything is and see if you can tell what happened. She just looked like I don't get it. So I told her that he leaped over his food bowl and came and sat beside me. I was like a little kid in a candy store with a hundred dollars. I was so excited that he was improving. I never in a millio years thought that I would be this way about a dog. I let him sit there with me for a while because he had done exceptionally well at improving.
All of this happened because of two things, hard work and prayer. When he first got sick, I was so taken I didn't know what to do. Especially when the doctors told us that the surgery would cost $2500-$3000. When I sat down and thought about what to do, that voice came to me again and said, "just do what you always do and give it to me." But this time I did something I had never done before. I sat beside Maui's cage and placed my hand on him and I begin to pray for him. I must admit, I felt weird doing it, but I knew that it was something that I had to do.
This is how we have to do in our everyday life. We have to work hard at what we are trying to accomplish. God loves to see us putting in effort and time into things that we want to achieve. I think he really likes it when he steps back when something goes wrong and takes his hands away and we fight through it and make it happen. I think that makes him proud of us. Don't give up when things get rough, just use what you have and keep trucking. Work hard at it and pray hard as well and eventually, things will turn around. Just be ready when they do.
-K.J Swint
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