In what was maybe the most awkward situation I've experienced all week, I just finished giving my dog a bath... er, shower. See, I don't have an actual bathtub, just a walk-in shower, which makes it difficult when it's 30 degrees outside and my puppy Davie desperately needs a solution for his sandy paws. So I jumped right in there with him and gave him a shower, and he looked at me like I was nuts, but in that loving way. Here's the thing about my dog: he shows me unconditional love. And as crazy as it might sound, I feel like he's a little reflection of God's unconditional love for me.
This is the great thing about Davie - on days when I come home from work smelling like a strange conglomeration of hours-old pizza and sweat (that sounds really gross when I actually say it), he still comes running to the door, wagging his little tail ninety miles an hour, so excited to see me. He still snuggles right up next to me on my bed, laying his pint-sized head on my lap, looking up at me with eyes that make me melt. He doesn't judge me when my hair looks like Carrot Top's, or when I haven't put on even a smidge of makeup, or when I didn't properly remove all my mascara from the night before and slightly resemble a racoon. He still loves me just as much. And he doesn't laugh at me, not one bit.
He loves me even when I come home grumpy, or am having a case of the Sunday night "blahs", or am freaking out unnecessarily about my future. And he's a really good listener. Sometimes I find myself wishing he could talk, so I'd know what he's thinking, but at other times I am very content just to have a sweet little dog who listens to me ramble on.
Today I took him to the dog park. It was his first dog park experience, and I'm pretty sure he had the time of his life. Most of the time he was fine playing with the other, much bigger dogs, but a few times he was surrounded by a pack and got a bit frightened. And what did he do? He came running to me :) Not that I'm glad he was being threatened, but it warmed my heart just a little, like a big cup of steaming hot cocoa, when he sought shelter in my arms. It's just such an amazing thing to give and receive love. A lot of times I get discouraged with the world, and tired of people, but then I'm reminded of the word LOVE, and how I receive it unconditionally every day. From my little puppy, yes, but much more deeply, from God. Which if you stop to think about for 5 minutes, it blows your mind. We're talking about the creator of the entire universe here, loving little old inconsequential ME. That fact should change my life. And it should change yours.
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