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Love like Titus
No, not the Titus in the Bible, my dog.
You see, my dog loves you absolutely unconditionally and he hasn’t even met you. He will prove his love when you come visit by licking every available bit of skin on you and leaning against you until you fall over.
Yeah, it’s awkward, but he really loves you.
When we take him down to the lake for a swim he tends to run off. Not the traditional ‘I’m an idiot dog with no sense‘ kind of running off, he does it because he loves you. If you are out for a jog and you pass by, Titus will join you on your run because he wants to be with you. This happened this morning when a lady went jogging past our house. Titus went for a jog with a perfect stranger for a few blocks.
I’m learning from Titus. I’m learning what it means to love people regardless of all that stuff.
What are you learning from your dog?
He's good to have around the office even though he isn't very productive
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Last hike before I head to the hill country
There’s not much in the way of mountains in Texas so I new I had to head up to San Gorgornio before we left. Micah, Mark and John made the trek along with my dog Titus. The trail we intended to hit was at capacity for the holiday which is typical Southern California so we headed up an unfamiliar route which turned out to be a sweet trail. We ended up at a beautiful cascading waterfall and ate lunch and relaxed in the mountain air.
After about ten miles Titus’ feet were pretty tore up. I’m sure he had traveled more than ten because he was running all over the place sniffing and doing doggy things. We ended about taking turns carrying Titus the last two miles back. Poor little guy, at five months old his feet aren’t quite tough enough for that kind of adventure.
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The newest member of the family
This is Titus, he’s our new weimaraner.
Among people who are familiar with weimaraners they tend to get a bad rap. This tends to be because they are really beautiful and are often picked up by people who have no idea what they are getting into and want a fashionable dog. They are both really smart and high energy which is a bad combo if you don’t train them well. I wanted one because they can handle a 9 mile mountain bike ride or 3 days in the back country backpacking with me.
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Everyone is Beautiful
The other day I was at the gym playing hoops, I will school you on the hardwood, and I stopped to take it all in. I know Jesus wants me to love everyone and that can be really hard sometimes. I stood there, on the side of the court and looked at every person in that gym and thought:
“Everyone of these people is beautiful. They were created in God’s image and they are true.”
We all walk around this life with an idea of what is ‘good’. Good food. Good music. Good people. Good anything. And we compare, consciously or subconsciously, our idea of good and what we experience around us and then in-turn, pass a judgment.
This tends to cause us to focus on the negative, because it stands out against the contrast of what we think is good. Whether or not our ‘good’ is right or wrong, that’s not the point.
Enter Titus 1:15 (msg)
To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted.
If I am pure in Christ, then I will see the beauty and truth in everything and everyone. With a my mind tuned into that reality, it is really easy to love everyone.
On the flip side, if I am not tuned into the mind of Christ, I will only see the ‘bad’. Yes it is there, but if that’s all I can focus on, I will not be effective for God’s kingdom.
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