More Fun Than One Rescue Dog - Two Rescue Dogs - Or More!

 

We were lucky to have a professional photographer at the dog park one day, and Sassy Sue adored a crowd.

Treasure (Treshy) was a medical mess, but we took her on and had a riot of fun with her, Sassy, and Precious II . I think Norma A. Boeckler took this photo.

Ranger Bob recently spotted an abandoned dog at the cemetery and took her in, naming her Lady. She had serious ear infection problems, but that was cured with antibiotics. Lady's antics at the Ichabode were hilarious, because she loved her superhero Bob and found so many ways to  have fun and be funny.



More than one person said to me, "Rescue dogs are special, because they always have that unique attitude from being given a forever home."

Friends asked me when I would fill the void left by Sassy Sue, who died from kidney failure. Looking quickly changed to visiting Lowell Animal Shelter to have a walk with Charli, a female Patterdale Terrier.

"When can I take her home?" They said, "Now is fine." They were wonderful with Charli, who wanted to stay there.



Charli's ambiguous name repeated the question asked about Sassy - boy or girl? I added Sue. Everyone is noticing that Charlie Sue is almost identical to Lady, except she is much smaller. 

The two of them got along at once, and they love tearing around the backyard. Christina asked me to create a green fence in the middle of the backyard, because we were looking right into the backyard of neighbors. A variety of dogs saw a rival dog facing them and barked their terrible threats whenever possible.

I followed the idea of stretching logs across the center of the backyard, letting the birds plant seeds for a green fence. I added elderberries earlier, and soon some large hostas and lambs ears.

I never saw the backyard as a race track, but Lady and Charli Sue did. First they were running up and down the fence with Porchi (aka Snowflake, a Great Pyrenees). Charli Sue demands running because Patterdales were bred for catching moles and rabbits. Charli Sue turned a bit of tag into a madcap race, around the oval formed by the green fence. Nothing is funnier than a small dog identical to a larger dog, racing full speed. To add to the fun, Charli took short-cuts through the green island and practiced zig-zag and spin around running, grinning all the time.

Reason To Study Luther's Sermons - Even Memorizing If Possible

 

People who read - an increasingly small number of the population - realize that the content becomes embedded in our minds and we crave for more of the same. That is just as easily true for trivia as it is for the foundational truths of the Scriptures.

I had undergraduate classes where no one could answer the obvious academic items yet every arm shot up when I stumbled over the name of a famous celebrity. As I have said before, the day came when no one wanted excellent free books, because everyone had a "smart" phone and a laptop. Undergrads laughed at my flip phone; I secretly laughed at their smartphone bills.

Eating good nutritious food leads to craving more of the same, setting aside and even forgetting what we once thought was good. I eat from one tiny area of the Supercenter - frozen foods and fresh produce - and almost nothing else (some meat each day). 

Ideas are like food. Luther is mocked today - especially by Lutheran leaders, the worst rascals calling themselves 

1. Orthodox
2. Confessional
3. Conservative.

Luther's unified view of the Bible enabled him to open the Scriptures to the eyes of all, the same agenda as William Tyndale who wanted everyone to know the Word of God and recite it while working. Luther was close to execution for a long period of his life. Tyndale was snatched back to England so King Henry VIII could have him executed, burned at the stake.

The persecutions failed because they spread the Word of God even faster than before. Religious clashes made it necessary for English Protestants to find refuge in Switzerland, then America. My ancestors came from England and from France, for the same reason - freedom of religion, the Bill of Rights Article completely ignored during the Covid melodrama.

The Christian Faith does not fade from persecution but from substituting trivia and Romanism for the Gospel. WELS, Missouri, ELCA, and the CLC did not die for the Church Growth Movement, but they were certainly eager to kill for it. Likewise, they put up with any false doctrine that sooths their itching ears, and any alcoholic, adulterous artificial pastor scattering the flock, but opposing Objective Faithless Justification fills them with murderous rage. 

I can write without fear or favor that the collapse of the Lutherans will continue and grow. Their stats are entirely fake, so look for the real numbers of traditional men at the seminaries. They are the canaries in the coal mine, increasingly small in number, like a Boy Scout troop stationed at an almost empty Army base.

This is your historic leadership.

This is your current leadership.

Daily Luther Sermon Quote - "Where Faith Is, There Is No Anxiety for Fine Clothing and Sumptuous Feasting"

Link to Complete Sermon - First Sunday after Trinity, Luke 16:19-31. Examples of Unbelief and Faith. The Rich Man and Lazarus

5. Here one traces the secret sins of his heart as the evil fruit. For where faith is, there is no anxiety for fine clothing and sumptuous feasting, yea, there is no longing for riches, honor, pleasure, influence and all that is not God himself; but there is a seeking and a striving for and a cleaving to nothing except to God, the highest good alone; it is the same to him whether his food be dainty or plain, whether his clothing be fine or homespun. For although they even do wear costly clothes, possess great influence and honor, yet they esteem none of these things; but are forced to them, or come to them by accident, or they are compelled to use them in the service of others.

Thus queen Esther says, that she bore the royal crown against her will, and that she had to wear it for the sake of the King. David also would rather have lived a private life; but for the sake of God and of his people he had to become king. In like manner all the saints considered that they were constrained to fill their stations of influence, honor and glory; and their hearts were never entangled by them, and labored in these external things to be helpful to their neighbor, as Psalm 62:10 says: “Trust not in oppression and become not vain in robbery; if riches increase set not your heart thereon.”

6. But where unbelief reigns man is absorbed by these vanities, he cleaves to them, seeks them and has no rest until he has acquired them, and after he possesses them, he feeds and fattens himself with them as the swine wallow in the mire, and finds at the same time his happiness and felicity there. He never inquires how his heart stands with his God and what he possesses in God and may expect from him; but his belly is his God; and if he cannot get what he wants, he imagines things are going wrong. And lo, these dreadful and wicked fruits of unbelief the rich man does not see, he covers them over, and blinds his own eyes by the good works of his pharisaical life, and hardens himself until no teaching, exhortation, threatening nor promise can help him. Behold, this is the secret sin which today’s Gospel punishes and condemns.