Been thinkin' about heaven. How wonderful it is going to be. Lately it seems like one of the best things about it will be that there will be no more relationship struggles. Imagine that! I'm longing & sighing.
I'm so weary of our humanity and the struggle to get along with folks around us. I'm weary of licking wounds. I'm not sure if we have some rough edges that need worked off or if we have attained a level of righteousness that results in attacks by the devil (as we discussed in SS yesterday), but I feel like we've been besieged from nearly every quadrant recently. Maybe we're just talented at being in the wrong place at the right time to get involved.
Yesterday we had a run-in of the neighbor variety. A neighbor went driving past our house in a pickup, pulling a livestock trailer with some dogs on board. JS was outside with our new dog, that we are still in the process of training. We have not been real strict with the north boundary of our property since no one lives back there behind us. A livestock trailer & other dogs headed in that direction proved too big of a temptation- Buster lit off after them. JS jumped on the 4wheeler and lit after him. When he came upon the scene, our dog was sitting on his haunches watching these folks, not interfering with their business in any way. The fella said to JS "You need to train your dog better than that." He went to his livestock trailer, produced a cattle whip and whipped our dog. His wife had been attempting to help Josh get the dog on the 4wheeler when this happened. Apart from his reputable character, I do not understand why he would do this.
The quote "People need love the most when they deserve it the least" keeps going through my mind, along with "heaping coals of fire". I'm battling this one- I really don't want to show any kindness to this man. Is it ungodly to hope his conscience smote him?
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