Love

Love is an amazing command. We are told by the Lord himself it is the fulfilling of the law. As a sinner I remember going to my brothers apartment in a very bad neighborhood to see my brother and his wife. While outside in the back yard against the side street was tied up a black chow dog and he was very aggressive growling barking trying to get at me. I got some hotdogs and went and set in arms length of this dog, as not to get myself hurt of course. Snarling and snapping at me I tossed him a piece of hotdog and set for hours with him until he was calm enough that he would finally eat them cautiously enough to tolerate me setting there I got him to take them from my hand. A couple of days later the same until he let me pet him. He was certainly not trusting and I had to earn trust from him because he had been mistreated needless to say. A couple of months later my sister-in-law showed up at my dads house with the dog in her arms and I was wide eyed to see that. She said Sam your the only person I’ve ever seen to be able to even get near near this dog and do what you have done and make friends with him. The people at the apartment abandoned him and he has no one and we can’t deal with him. Would you take him? I managed a pet or two and it started there a relationship that lasted for years. It took much work and effort. Lots of love and discipline until he could trust people to pet him and admire his beauty and talent. I taught him everything even on hand signals. Fetch, sit, beg, die, roll over, talk to me, close the door, get on his hind legs and walk to me, get the trash and put it in the trash can. He was very impressive.
People are very much the same way and take time. Many have been miss treated and don’t trust and have had a very hard life and it is important to try and love the unlovable. It’s easy to love a sweet dog as it just loves on you and kisses you with that most yielding love being so sweet. It takes time and patience and afterward it yieldeth up its peaceable fruit of righteousness. Take the time to love and make an impact. A time I felt like giving up on this chow dog I named Bubba. I loaded him up took him up on a street and dropped him off and I pulled off on this straight strip and kept going. He just ran and ran following my car trying to catch up. I didn’t have it in my heart to do that. I stopped opened my door and waited on him. He jumped in and off we went. He stayed with me until I met my wife until years later he was hit and killed by a truck that the guy never even stopped to tell someone but my mother in law saw it and called me. I left work and my boss was really upset about it. So I told her that dog has been with me longer than my wife and if it cost me my job so be it. I almost made it there before he died. I wept and cried holding him. Buried him. Loved him. Try it (Love)