Day 141

Scripture: Ps 69, 73;  2 Samuel 5:1-12; Acts 17:1-15; Mark 7:24-37


Scripture standout: Mark 7: "²⁸ “Lord,” she replied, “even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”


Morning thoughts: The dog under our table certainly eats our crumbs. Dot, our little French Pointer, will glady accept anything that falls her way. Sometimes, when the kids aren't looking, she'll nab their sandwiches or chips if they've gotten to engrossed in another activity. She's also been known to whisk chicken off the top of a full garbage can. We had a springer one time who would jump up on the counter and paw things off to eat them. He ate a whole pyrex dish of chocolate cake one time! Amazingly, this act did not kill him. Instead it provided fabulous entertainment for us because the doctor's prescription was giving him at least six oral shots of Hydrogen Peroxide. You've never seen a plate of chocolate cake come up so fast!

Point being...even the dogs, the lowest of the low in any pack or family or community, long for the food on the table. Just like the Greek woman whose daughter had some "unclean spirit," and was healed.


His Deed/The Day: Followed up and checked in with a family struggling. Gave a focused, genuine, real smile to the gal unloading stuff at Goodwill. It was hot, I had boob sweat, and all I wanted to do was throw some things at her and squeal away with the ac blasting my pits — but it occurred to me that if she  could take the time to be real for a minute, I sure could return it joyfully and sincerely.