Chai & Shiloh

Our "puppies" Chai and Shiloh are now almost 1 year old.  They are brothers; Golden Retriever/Labrador mix.  Chai's name is short for La Chaim which means "to life!" and Shiloh's name means "peace!"  We sure do enjoy them!  They are so cute even though they are now 50-60 pound "puppies!"  Chai has a classic Golden Retriever color and Shiloh is black.  

We have a 100 foot cable run set up in our back yard so they don't have to stay penned up all day.  It gives them a lot of freedom without having to worry about losing them in our heavily wooded surroundings.  Every day our Grandson Caleb takes them from their pen and hooks them both up to the cable pulley before he goes to school.

There were a few problems when we first put the cable run in place.  You see both dogs are attached to the same pulley that runs along the cable.  This means that they must agree as to which end of the cable run they want to go to.  Shiloh will usually win out by "tugging" at the cable until Chai joins him in heading one way or the other.  Also, they would easily get all tangled up because in playing with each other and just moving around, their individual leads would get tangled together.  When I would go out to untangle them, I would have to unwind the mess by making them move one way or another.  They didn't always agree with these "backward" movements.  They usually wanted to go one way while I was having to make them go another in order to straighten out the mess they had gotten themselves into.  (Do you sense an example happening here!?)

I know God sometimes has to help us unravel the messes we get ourselves into.  We can get all tangled up, and when He is helping us get untangled, He sometimes has to make us go backwards for a time, or in a direction we don't want to go or we may think is wrong.  But He knows what He is doing and what it takes to get things straightened out, even if it doesn't seem like the direction He is asking us to go makes sense to us in the moment.

So to expedite the process, what do we (and Chai and Shiloh!) need to do?  Cooperate and willingly go in the direction we are lead without fighting against it.  We must trust that God is patiently working with us to get us free so we can move again!

Have a great week.....and don't resist the leading of the Lord!