Remember when......

Time slips away quietly. It sneaks past us all and suddenly we think... Where has the time gone?

this is a precious moment :)

I find myself asking that now! I'm excited that friends Mark and Deb get to watch their first puppy, Ansel, who turned in with Dembre graduate! This gives me a reality check. Wasn't it just yesterday that we were talking about turn-in and graduation... the bright future. The thing that is strange is that I talk about the future, but so easily forget how fast the time flies... soaring away before I even know it's there.

Two things sunk in recently... Dembre is actually fulfilling his purpose, and no matter how many times I said it, it seemed strange until now... somehow surreal. and secondly that Hobart is now 10 months old and not so far from turn-in. I'll be traveling for a lot of the summer, which means I'll be apart from Hobart and before I know it.... BOOM it'll be turn-in.

Something inside me screams, "Stop! This can't be happening. What happened to that little puppy? Those perfect summer days playing in the yard?" but another voice speaks softly. "This is what is supposed to happen... it's destiny and this is your chance to change a life."

was that almost two years ago already?

I'm embracing the second one... no matter how fast the time moves or how much I forget that it's going... I, no all of us, need to concentrate on what really matters. We can so easily make life into a routine without any joy to it... any picture perfect moments, but I urge you to take time to live NOW and to make memories. There's only so much time and it's ours to use wisely! Today is a gift from God!

~Elijah & Hobart II

God's Creation

It's spring!!!! I always thank God when spring comes. God's creation is AMAZING! Some of you may disagree with me, but I will stick with my faith. I know a lot of other peoples cases against the existence of God, and the proof for Evolution. I am not sorry to say I disagree.

Look at Dembre for example. He is smart enough to learn 40 commands, read human emotions, and just know things. He might not be the smartest dog I know, but he's certainly pretty brilliant when you think about it. I think that shows a clear cut case for creation. I think it would be very hard to really believe that such an amazingly smart and unique animal same from a single life cell. I think that as a puppy raiser you can see how much dogs are an example of intelligent design. Just being smart is one thing. Being able to turn on lights, open doors, and retrieve dropped items is a utterly different matter. The dogs must interpret voice commands from a human that thinks very differently than dogs do. Guide dogs also amaze me. They have signals, but they also have to partially rely on their memories and wit to guide their blind or visually impaired partner through traffic and tight spaces.

For me that closes the case. God made planet earth and is powerful enough to combine every little detail to make each amazing creature just like He wants it.

~Elijah & Dembre