Saturday, October 02, 2004

FIDO GOES PUNK

We were exchanging hair-raising tales of high-school hijinks that our kids had pulled, but one story was more hair-raising than the others. Actually, more fur-raising.

A mom and dad came home to find their furry little white dog, a miniature American Eskimo, had been dyed hot pink.

Yes, the kids got in trouble. But afterwards everybody laughed about the funky, colorful sled and traces that a hot-pink Eskimo dog would pull. That would spice up the frozen tundra! Or at least make the bears stay in hibernation a little longer.

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Prayer request: It is with joy and trepidation that a reader seeks prayer for reconciliation in her family. Her husband obtained inpatient treatment for alcoholism this summer and has not been back to the house more than a handful of times since early June. Now he is talking about moving back in and making a new start. Though she’s terrified, she believes firmly that it is Your plan for their family, and she wants it to work. Lord, hear their prayer and reunite them, in truth and love. Give them faith, love and humor to salve the wounds of the pain this addiction has caused. We stand together firmly against the power of damaging addiction. We point to You as the substance of life, the only thing any of us needs to depend on. Thank You, Jesus, for making this wife open to reconciliation, which is always Your will. Reward her faith by satisfying him with the true thirst-quenching of the Water of Life. (2 Corinthians 5:18)

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