Amazing Love

Today morning as I was leaving the house for work, my daughter, who had stayed back home from school due to illness, chose to see me off.  Suddenly, we noticed that Sam her pet dog had sneaked out of the house and had ran out of the main gate to the next door neighbor’s house. We could hear him bark from within the compound which could only mean one thing; the neighbor’s gate was open.

Every morning, at around six, Sam is let out of the house to go enjoy the fresh morning air before our gardener lets out the birds.  In this short period that Sam is released, his aim is not to enjoy the fresh air like we had purposed for him but to go to the next door neighbor’s gate and tease Mairo. Our neighbor has this gigantic, black and very ugly dog. It is a very scary dog that sits behind the closed gate. However, even though Mairo sits behind the closed gate whenever you pass by that gate you will not fail to experience cold shivers running down your spine. It is this same fierce dog that Sam would go tease despite the fact that he is a collie border breed, and a puppy. It has been a daily ritual that every time the doors would be opened for Sam he would run as fast as lightning to the next door neighbor and tease Mairo who sat calmly behind the tall black gate. Once in a while Mairo would get so irritated and bark back at Sam and all I could pick from their dog conversation is that one day I will get you.

As my daughter and I conversed behind the main gate which was few inches open, we heard a fierce sound coming towards the gate. Sam came running towards the gate seeking shelter and behind him was Mairo, the gigantic, black and ugly dog and by reflex action I quickly slammed the gate to shield my little girl and I. Sam was being attacked by Mairo right outside our main gate and Sylvia was screaming on top of her lungs, calling out to Sam as she reached out for the gate trying to go out and shield her dog.  I had to hold back my daughter as she helplessly cried out for her dog.  I was helpless not knowing what to do. Luckily, our gardener who was close by came in the nick of time to rescue Sam.

Sam had learnt his lesson, I bet, to pick out the right fight. I also learnt my lesson, which is a person will shield that which matters dearly to them.

Jeremiah 31:3 The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.