e-collar

Today as I was doing my Believing God study, Beth Moore told about walking her dogs and asking God if this was like Him walking her-because she questioned if she kept trying to slip out of the leash unnoticed. Wow..I thought oh my do I do this? As I looked over at Watson--our acquired homeless dog, who mind you is the stubbornest thing dog I know--I saw myself and what God has to do sometimes to get my attention.
See Watson got his ear cut the other night & it would not stop bleeding. Really..our garage looked like a murder scene more than once because we thought we had the bleeding stopped. We held him tight, applying pressure but oh no--this made him even more determined. So, once the bleeding would stop and we would allow him to walk, hoping he would lay down and rest---He would sling his head & the blood would fly. Not only did he do this, he tried to fix it himself by rubbing his head on anything he could--not knowing this was making it much worse. So after a trip to an emergency vet, Watson was not stitched up-but bandaged up with an e-collar. Again, not a happy dog but the bleeding had stopped-or so we thought. See we did the first thing that came to mind and that was to fix it immediately. So today we take him to our regular vet and they remove the bandage and sling...blood flies everywhere once again. They were shocked he didn't get stitches and said since it was on a blood vessel, that stitches were required. So Watson is once again home, stitched up and wearing the e-collar again.
In relation to God, I thought Wow! how my walk is so often like this...I mean often I am hurt or need answers & turn to the first thing I THINK will help or offer answers...oh how wrong I often am and know it. Just like Watson, we need to wait on the One who knows us, created us for help & direction. If we don't, because God does love us, He often has to correct us, or allow us to suffer through our choices--sometimes even requiring us to wear e-collar of life--meaning we are forced to focus on something else to get us to the point of allowing God to help us...
anyway ....ponderings of my mind today I felt I should share...