Christians are to depend on their master
Spiritual Reflections
Pat Ozment Jr. IMB Missionary to Ghana
Princess, our pure bread African dog, is very great with pooches in pouches. We tried to keep her away from mixed company during her fertile period, but we had to go to Dakar, Senegal, and she had the gall to go gallivanting.

It was our intent to have her spayed, but when we took her to the vet, she was too young, and now it's too late.

The culprit is a surly looking neighborhood cur named, "Red," who insists on hanging around to see his offspring. I can tell that he can't be counted on for child support.

Anyone want a puppy? How about a pair, take as many as you want, they are free. No, we don't deliver, except locally.

Mom Peggy wanted to know how much I know about birthing little copies of man's best friend and my answer was, "put her in a cardboard box before you go to bed, and in the morning the box will be full of puppies."

"Seriously," she said, "what do you plan to do?"

I found a cardboard box at the library, and brought it home. I have remodeled it extensively, using a box cutter and duct tape, and it now has a door, a roof, and a place on our screened-in porch.

I think Peggy would like us to take her to the Baptist Medical Clinic in Nalerigu, but I don't think the OBGYN up there would appreciate it.

This is just one of the many situations not covered in field personnel orientation. They must change the curriculum to cover the situation in the future.

I know that there is a Spiritual lesson in all this, because this is "Spiritually Speaking." In Matthew 15:26- 29, Jesus used little dogs to reveal a woman's faith. "But He said to her, 'it is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the little dogs.' And she said, 'Yes Lord, yet even the little dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their master's table,' Then Jesus said to her, 'O woman great is your faith! Let it be to you as you desire.' And her daughter was healed from that very hour."

Depend on your Master the way a dog depends on his, and I'll see you in church.

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