It was simply overwhelming as I watched the video on CNN last night of a dog's heroic love yesterday on a busy New York freeway.

At first, I was taken back to that awful day and incident, seeing Sundance crying in the road, as I watched the news video yesterday of a 9 year old dog laying wounded on a New York freeway after being hit while crossing the freeway.

But then, for her, the calvary came. Suddenly, another dog ran into the freeway, in front of her, and as witnesses said, all by himself, diverted traffic away from the wounded dog.

You see, he was her son, and come to her he did, ferociously guarding her, at his own life risk. And she will be ok!

That, my friends, is not just animal “instinct”, that is Love, and it is a God presence that once again affirms what I know, I know is true, these animals are not just “not” insignificant, they are a source of deep pride to God. And then I realized, God does not intend us to know we are made in his image to simply know the honor and privilege in that, it is that very fact, being made in his image, that tells us as he would, that privilege had a purpose; To love his lesser beings with all our heart, and open our hearts to them, celebrate and cherish them, not as a literal equal, but as an equal as far as beings made in his image should, on his behalf.

My whole world has changed beyond what I can say, and scales of pain, pride, loss, error, and struggle now lay in a pile of simple ruin.

Now I understand that without the night, I would never have seen the stars. It's all coming together

'it's not a dream, God will make all things new that day, gone is the curse from which I stumble....no more night, no more pain.....we will live in the light of the risen lamb'

-David Phelps

AND,

'I have a thankful heart, that you have given me.....help me be a man of God, a man whose after your own own heart, help me show my gratitude, for giving me a thankful heart'

-Petra

Sundance, I'll see you there!