Sign Language for Dogs

there is only one thing i can recognize as……………..unlimited……….. not time…………..not money………..not possessions……nor friends…….. the only………i stress one………..unlimited source i have found in this world is………… Gods’ grace and love…………….one

authentic love………..not emotional or conditional………..cannot be given and taken away………love is stronger then circumstance or response………..love feeds and nurtures it’s self………..does not need reinforcement or recognition and is comfortable with the gratifying feeling of extension without expectation…………………. real authentic love knows no time nor distance and is comfortable that what…

friend if you care to listen i will share a gift with you……if you choose to open it…………the most beautiful wonders will ensue………..it is available to everyone but many scoff and turn away……..some are afraid it will make them change and they are determined to live life their way……………… if…

after years of study i am convinced a deep and meaningful life can be achieved and nurtured by accomplishing one practice……. identifying and listening to your inner voice……. one doesn’t find spiritual enlightenment……..one accepts it………… the volumes of doctrines and philosophies i have endured searching for what i already had………..just…

i am grateful to say that time has a way of filing things away………….and they move from the folder, ”urgent /must address”…………..to ”pending/ no longer a mess”……….. often the things in the latter folder never go away………but they no longer consume you and you accept that they are here to…

you shared what a temptation it was to go back to the old way of life………….everyone around was doing their thing and you felt alone and uptight………… well you did the right thing by telling on yourself and bringing the boogey man to light…………..keep doing what your doing stay on…

the old miner said ”there’s gold in them hills………but most of it doesn’t look like gold…………..you have to dig it out, clean it up and realize what it is that you hold……….most of the time it’s an opportunity to build a mine with the barest minimal parts………and as you dig…

”Meet Me in the morning……..before the sun begins to shine…….when all the world is sleeping……….not ready to open it’s eyes……….and I will come and minister to you……..and show you how to live your life……. bring to me your problems, your trials and concerns……and we will walk together to discover the…

lying on the battlefield the explosion hit me on the side……..i looked down to see a part no longer attached………..i have heard others express that in severe trauma the pain is so great the mind cannot process it and it is almost cancelled out…….i can attest this is true……….i heard…

i have always found that when we wish to share an emotion or blessing with someone…………….the time to do it is then…………..forget waiting for the right time……right surroundings…….they are irrelevant………………sometimes the message won’t be received well…………doesn’t matter…….how many times have i sat alone only to revisit a past occurrence and…

one more run before i’m done…..can feel it in my bones….this time i’m not calling the shots and the destination is unknown…………that wind that stirs my soul and keeps the internal embers aglow…..blows through these sails in my head and beckons my heart to go……….this sailor has no map nor…

i miss me most when i attempt to be something i’m not……………i have found people to respond better to less than……………then to pretend………………………. the real deal is authenticity

the most beautiful example of compassion i have ever witnessed was watching a big man step between a person being attacked and taking blows intended for another……the aggressor realized he could not hurt the man and walked away………..the man who stepped between made no attempt to hurt the attacker….he merely…

the God i worship is a chip off the block…….He will give me a hug or swat me on the butt…….He can be kind and He can be tough…..i don’t need a mamby pamby God…….. i need a God who loves to drive……………goes to the movies and like a massage…….likes…

just a miracle was our request…………….followed by labored prayer……………and the hours that followed passed like climbing over barbed wire…………….but we held our ground and held our tongue and let You do Your work………………what ensued was a series of events that returned something we love……we acknowledge it was amazing………….we marveled how…

i turned around and you were gone…………we reported you as missing…………they took the report with little concern and less hope for your return………into the night we continued to search………….we had to find you………..you wouldn’t have found us and prayers were prayed and we called for you even though you hearing…

when you hurt you it hurts us too……………….because we have been there before………when you shut your door, you shut ours too………..because helping you helps us too………………..when you don’t pick up the phone and say your alone……..frazzled and don’t know what to do……..you cut us off from doing our part…..to help…

shallow breaths and then no more…………..my soul was heading towards a door……..a voice engulfed me, ”sit . i would like a word with thee………” i was taken to a room where i could plainly see the sun and the moon………….the voice continued on……..”like two bookends that mark each day……the sun…

well it wasn’t a terrible day, every tenth thing went my way………and i sat on the patio and looked at the trees and a crow not to far away had his eyes on me…………. we sat for awhile taking each others stock and he flew closer to get a better…

i love my clown he knows when i’m down and is always quick with a trick………he looks at me with his wrinkled nose and bats his eyes at me……he pulls a rag from his pants as if to blow his nose and then a shower of flowers erupts and he…

i’m a young 65……….i hear you…….”still 65”…………today was the first day i ever used a pair of nail clippers to trim my nails…………..i would maul them, pull them, twist them…..whatever…….wouldn’t take the time to do it the right way……..so my hands always looked like i had been fighting with a…

when you determine which peak you intend to scale…….you train for that peak………because they are all different……….all are taxing, trying, confusing, draining and treacherous…………..but different…………..like 2 people that look alike but eons apart…. you train………..but you have learned that no matter how hard or long you train……there will be an…

when you go to war, you have to anticipate the possibility of being wounded……………..so one must carefully access a decision to enter therein………… casualties are a product of war……………..if you have never been a soldier in a conflict worth dying for……..you have lived a selfish and self-centered life, to never…

i may run the world away……because i tell the truth……………..others may not be ready for it and that is their excuse……..but i will do what’s right for me regardless of how it looks and let the outcome fall where it will……..i remain true to myself…………… i am not here to…

you don’t have the right to tell me what’s right for me……….just what’s right for you…………………….. you cannot control me and i have absolutely no desire to control you………….so in your nervousness about what i would say or do…………i have no interest in doing anything that could harm you………. there…

you will never know the value of being broken………….until you experience it…………….. you will hear of lessons learned from listening to others…………..and it is priceless…………but you cannot experience their brokenness…….you have to have you own……… when you are looking at your life and the pieces are scattered on the floor…

over the hills and through the woods life has run it’s course and i have been turned inside out and upside down and weathered it pretty well………through all of life’s challenges i have felt secure……..for i have always tested positive and for that i feel pretty good……………. that eternal spring…

i never had any expectations that things would work out like i planned………because i didn’t have any plans….. sometimes we don’t understand for lack of information and sometimes we don’t want to understand with plenty of information…… i had no ideas, you were wrong to assume……….people have a hard time…

i know You……..i have seen You before………………….when i call……….. You are at my door…………..late at night as i stare at the sky…….i feel Your Presence by my side…………….i know You and i know You care about what i’m doing and how i’m living down here……………i know You, how You comfort…

it was easy to say that his emotions got away………..and left it questionable what he would do……………..but knowing that particular man…….there was only so much he could do………..a closer examination would begin to reveal the truth………..you weren’t afraid of him……………you were afraid …of you