(Photo: dogs.thefuntimesguide.com)
Today I encouraged 7 high schoolers as they organized donations in the home/office/pantry of a very visionary, very compassionate, fairly goofy missionary from the Philippines, sister Luz. After 3 hours of more or less stinky (more moldy and less sanitary) cleaning, they were ready for a break, some soda and a nap. Instead, they sat down on Sister Luz's front porch as I let the 5 new puppies of her raggedy dogs out of the house. As I saw 15 year boy and 30 year old youth pastor alike stroke the little furry black faces, I realized some things are universal. Puppies and babies, oceans and sunsets, grassy meadows and sand dunes--they'll calm any walk of life, personality, or state of being.
And, to re-create the scene: we stroked our respective puppies as Sister Luz told us her life story of nurse to immigrant to born-again to business woman to shop owner to prophesying, traveling, organizing, do-it-all missionary.
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