Run outside.
Take a picture of the first thing you see. Run inside. Take a picture of the
second thing you see. Write about the connection between these two random
objects, people, or scenes.
Nature and Gunner. All around us in our neighborhood is nature
from the evergreen trees to the wetlands behind our house to the mallards in
the drainage ponds, and the rabbits in the grassy, green spaces…nature is what
most folks move to the Northwest to be more a part of, and even though we are
in a slightly industrial and brand new housing development, there is still plenty
of nature all around us.
Gunner is our rescued German Shorthaired
Pointer (GSP) 2 year-old canine (or more accurately put, our new baby in the
house). We’ve only had him 3 months, but
he has quickly become a very important, slightly all-consuming part of our
family. Because he was a rescue, there’s
so much we do not know about him like his exact age (we are guessing around 2),
and why he ended up in a shelter…well, nature has taught us a bit of WHY we
think he was in a shelter. First off, GSP’s are bred to be some of the best
hunting dogs there are, particularly for bird hunting. It is literally BRED in them to hunt and
flush out prey. Even in our limited
hunting scene, which is the nature found in the green spaces and 200 feet of
wetlands behind our home, Gunner cannot help but focus all his energy and time
on searching for birds and rabbits to chase.
The connection between Gunner and nature is unbreakable…we have had to
go to an electronic collar just to pull his attention away from his prey drive
to come when we call him. GSP’s are
known escape artists, thus the reason for his homelessness and for our purchase
of an e-collar for him. He is doing
really well, but nature will always be the strongest draw for him…the one
temptation he simply cannot resist, his best and worst trait.
Oh, to know beyond the shadow of a doubt
exactly what you were made for…Gunner knows what he was meant to do and cannot
help doing it with all his being whenever he has the chance. It’s amazing to watch him in action….I hope
someday to find the same thing for myself…to know what God made me to do and do
it with all my being. What were you
meant to do and are you doing it?
“Only let each
person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has
called him. This is my rule in all the churches.” 1 Corinthians 7:17
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