Sign Language for Dogs

you struck a nerve in me and i could have walked away but sooner or later someone was going to challenge you it might as well be me……………………….i agree there is a time for silence then there is a time to speak…………………………….. i told you what you didn’t want to…

the man i once knew doesn’t live here anymore……………………he didn’t actually move…………….he more accurately faded away and was replaced by a man more aware of the astonishing miracle of life and the magic and mystery that surrounds it…………….. in all it’s forms……………….. i watched the transformation and molting take place…

the correct intention surpasses the verbiage in offering condolences or congratulations……………………………………………. the look on ones’ face transcends all words and conveys the truest emotion because the faces expresses the feelings of the heart………………………….. a tender touch for a solemn occasion……………………a hearty hug for a joy filled event………………………………… i can scarcely…

somebody needs your helping hand………….to know you care and are there for them………………..not to judge or condemn………………but to left them know you are their friend………… someone has a burden to bare and the presence of your love helps to shoulder that burden…………….lightening their load……………..and that will mean more to them…

make ‘change’ your friend because it will come around now and then…….whether you like it or not………….. listen to what it says and stop long enough to digest how to accept and adjust to the rearrangement in your life…………….. because there is a reason it is there…….. it will not…

the one thing that makes me ”rich”…………..is that i was introduced to God……that knowledge has opened many doors for me and probably has ”closed” many also….for which i am grateful……………i acknowledge that my vision is finite and conditioned by my will and fear…………………God’s vision is infinite and He has no…

hopeful that a word will serve to help you through the day….. that a note will stir your heart to help another along the way…. perhaps a shared event will help you muster the courage to face a fear…… they are just words………………until one strikes a nerve and help you…

grateful that a voice reminds me there is always more than we can see…………i am not capable of grasping……………”all”…………………..just part at best allowing me a margin of understanding, that parts are missing and to be careful not to make decisions based on evidence that is missing pieces restraint…………….restraint……………….is not for…

sing me that song that stirs in your heart……….when you feel you are dancing for the King…… that melody that bids you goodnight and rouses you from your sleep….. that you learned long ago when times were bleak and it seemed to storms everyday…. you prayed that prayer of hope and…

this little light is here for someone who needs a beacon in that dark place where they are………………….it isn’t about what i can do or say to them……….it’s about what God can do or say through me…………………. i have been in that dark place and i knew of the light…

your trying to steer us into an ”iceberg”…………..but we know there is much you don’t want us to see……………..your twisted in your thinking and we know it’s calamity…. that somehow you got the notion that you deserve everything you see………..when what i  don’t earn doesn’t take long… until it’s meaningless…

I suppose you say the things you do because you forget your pledge………… I promised salvation for you if you did the best you could, to follow my teachings thought that was understood…………. but you continue to use you tongue to preach discourse and unrest………I won’t take away your salvation……………….just…

if you talk it/walk it You Believe Me or You Don’t all twisted up over things you can’t control You believe Me or You Don’t Finances looking a bit thin You Believe Me or You Don’t You pledged your allegiance to me/but you question whether i am listening You Believe…

while you were sleepin’…………………..God changed the world……..He does it every nite…………………you don’t always notice the changes but they are there…………just a slight wave of His Hand and the wheels of change start to turn………… there are so many things as we walk in faith we resolve that we will never…

there’s no way out of this journey………………….we will ride it out till the end…….i couldn’t get over the problems i caused myself……………….so i decided to let You in…. when i was beaten enough to listen………………i sit down and You came to my side……i remember Your Voice very clearly…………….”let me steer….and…

how deep is the well you draw from………………..that drains everyone around……..because your hunger for ”more”………………keeps things in an uproar and many are ready to shut it down……………. the problem with believing that those ”closest” will always cut us some slack……….eventually even they get tired of giving and never getting back…

the problem is a door/it’s what you have been looking for/instead of being mad, you should be glad/ the answer that you seek is finally within reach the problem is a door please don’t send it away/ask it to come in and play/it will take some time but eventually you…

why wouldn’t i/wish good things for you/that i would wish for me why wouldn’t i/ want success for you /even it if it doesn’t come to me why wouldn’t i /wish health and happiness for you/though my health fluxuates why wouldn’t i want the sun to always shine brightly on…

i hope you will reconsider you defiance…your disdain……your disbelief…………. you scoff when prayer is suggested……….but admit you have never tried…..you will keep getting chances until the day you die……………. so friend i hope you get it…………it isn’t hard to acquire……………….but if you continue to deny and defy the sacrifice that…

i cannot change the world……………….but i can change me…………..being sure that what people see is what i believe……………..lofty ideal to expect the world to be things i am not……..and expect others to live by standards that i ignore…………… when i stop and examine the work that needs to be done…

i have not tread on the road ahead………………….but it gives me little concern………..for i have a friend that accompanies me and He has traveled these roads before……………..i have memories of past events when He has shown the way……………….and what appeared an impossible transverse………………..was just a mattrer of letting Him lead…

you gaze at me reflecting/ i remind you of days you long to relive/days you long to forget/the waves cover and uncover/when you are ready to accept/when you are ready to let go…… washing and rinsing/washing and rinsing/better than you were before………..never white as snow/life stains as reminders of where…

respect takes on many forms………………..the first begins with me….what i say………….how i live and what is important to me……………………………respect for the things in my life that can be easily overlooked or taken for granted……………….health………..finances…………friendships….etc………. to appreciate what one doesn’t have and doesn’t need…………is a valuable part of respect………. i have…

at nite as i am retiring…………………before i fall asleep…………………i thank God for His Blessings and pray my soul to keep……………………….then before the curtain closes on another day……………………………… i count my gold and treasures by the teachers, friends an family that He has given me…… their knowledge and thier wisdom……………..their care…

when i drank……………rarely did i spend extra to get so called ”top shelf”’ brands………….to me they all had the safe effect………….oblivion……………. that was the only criteria i was concerned with……………… in recovery i have amassed some ”top shelf”………friends that simply stand out from others and thus i hold them in…

i stopped listening to your lips…………………because your actions never matched your talk… so i watch your hands and feet because they don’t lie……………….they may hesitate and studder……but they speak the truth and it isn’t easy to hide………….. so i have learned to trust the language of your hands and feet…

ahhhhhhhhhh!…………………a typhoon is getting ready to land on me…………… God smiles and says, ”come stand by me”……………….. the winds are fierce and the trees begin to sway……………….. God said….”i made the winds and I can take them away”……………… the cupboard is looking sparse………….a voice comes to me……………….. ”when was the…

jus passin’ through my way to You…………………………..and You asked me to help while I’m here and i resisted at first and then You whispered in my ear……. ”My Son this road you walk is tiring and You will need me to guide your way………..I will place people in your path…

when i evaluate the time i spend concerned with matters over which i have no control…………i am embarassed………………………. time that rightfully would have been better spent learning the teachings of a God who has already laid out my”lesson plans”……………..equipped with a spiritual guide ready to mentor me in those endeavors………………..…

i am not my brother’s keeper……………..but i am my brother’s conscience…………… if i accept that designation…………….it comes with the responsibility of being open to critique as well as giving it in love…………… a brother who can’t look you in the eye and tell you that your walk is crooked…………….isn’t a…