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Yikes!
I had a big scare this afternoon. Occasionally we dog sit for a few days a teeny tiny chiuaua dog. I normally can't stand this breed dog because they are so nervous. I hate all of the shaking and whining and snapping at the least little thing.
However this little dog is deaf and I guess because of that is perfectly calm. No shaking or acting like an idiot. It is a very loving dog and interstingly enough responds to hand signals since it cannot hear.
My wife brought this little dog home to stay with us for a few days as it is mistreated somewhat by a member of it's family.
Today I let it outside with Elvis (one of our dogs) to use the bathroom. Elvis never leaves our front yard and does not go near the street. This little deaf dog always just stays around Elvis and after being out side for a couple of miniutes I will go to the door and let them back in.
Today I got distracted and left them out for probably 5 minutes instead of a couple. When I went to let them in only Elvis was at the door. I have been so busy I wasn't even sure I had let the deaf dog out with Elvis but thought I had. When I couldn't find her in the house I was sure I had.
The problem with a deaf do is that you cannot call them. LOL!!! I searched all in our front yard and in the extensive shrubbery across the front and one side. My wife and I then started walking down opposite directions of our street and searched the neighborhood. This was very scary because being deaf she could easily just step out in front of a car.
After walking and driving, looking in neighbors yards we had just about decided that someone had grabbed her out of our yard. I was standing in our driveway scanning our neighbors back yard and as far as I could see when I caught a glimpse of white way over in a back yard a street over (thank heavens those neighbors had no fences or chain link fences so I could see over three yards). Sure enough this little teeny tiny deaf dog had somehow managed to go around chain link fences or under them and was in that yard on the next street. We were able to get her and bring her home.
I could not even imagine having to tell the little five year old girl who loves her that I had lost her. Thank the Lord we found her!
The ironic thing is that she is a very obedient dog and if she had her hearing would have come when we called for her without a doubt. It is kind of hard to see hand signals from hundreds of feet away and through trees and fences!
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"I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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