- Not The Only One!
- Post #148
- 15 Aug 24
- ” Mutzs”
- Howdy,
- Thanks again for checking in and seeing what’s new or fresh out of the hopper of my spiraling cortex ☺️☺️. In this country we love our pets and what use to be predominantly cats and dogs has just expanded and exploded to a wild variety of exotic animals. Our expenditures of cash on our pets is like third , behind military spending and housing and personal living expenses☺️☺️. As many would say, they are just like a part of the family☺️☺️. That’s an incredible statement in itself, but not , are we just spending large amounts of money on gourmet pet foods, toys and grooming, but on the purchase of the pets themselves. If , you own a pet, then you may be familiar with having to take out a second mortgage out to pay vet bills…. can you just say ouch!! ☺️☺️It’s not that the day of the pound puppy is over, but they are not the preferred choice any longer. We are so much more refined and sophisticated and our furry babies have to reflect that ☺️. We are spending thousands of dollars on all kinds of pets in the price range that use to be confined to buying a quality used cars or an elaborate vacation.☺️☺️
- The pet market has also been expanded now by a segment known as ” emotional support animals “. It gets a little crazy at times when people have emotional support animals for their emotional support animals ☺️☺️☺️, yeah! Go figure that one out. The support animal makes sense, for years we have had therapy animals in hospitals and nursing homes, and we can’t deny the calming and healing impact that animals have and bring to bare. Still we have couples who are choosing to forgo the traditional path of having real children and find animals as a trendy alternative. Over the years we have heard about people leaving crazy inheritance to their pets with some kind of guardian appointed to oversee the estate. Just imagine enough money to trade in your kibble for T bone steaks every night ☺️☺️.
- I love dogs, I find them to be extremely loyal and more so than people. I know that there is a bunch of you guys out there who feel very much the same as I do. You may wish that your spouse or mate was as loyal as your pets. If you could teach them how to make dinner, fetch a beer or conduct a quality foot message, they just might make your partner obsolete ☺️☺️. I wasn’t really raised with pets, being one of six kids, when it came to feeding one more mouth, that was a hard No for my parents, plus my mother always played the allergy card.☺️☺️. Now, with cats I play that very same card☺️☺️. When I moved out, I always had dogs and fish. I had a couple of Shepherds, and one of my uncles use to breed them. I had a gorgeous blue eyed Husky. I don’t think that the warm weather in this area is their friend☺️. The last dog that I had before I met my wife was a Rottweiler. A beautiful animal, his name was Maestro…he just loved Barry White☺️☺️
- . This is sort of about mutts, so some thirty years ago or so , I had a friend talk to me about man made breeds. Honestly I didn’t even think about it being such a thing, but it’s so popular now, you would think, how could I not know about such a thing ☺️. Well my friend had spent time in Germany in the Army where he was introduced to Boxers. I had seen them, knew what they were, just thought that they were cousins with a Doberman . I didn’t realize that it was the intentional cross breeding of a great Dane with a bull dog. Oh yeah, now I see it☺️☺️. Readers digest version we got one and he had separation anxiety and he made our house look like the war zone of downtown Beirut ☺️☺️. Needless to say the Mrs. wasn’t to thrilled with that one. We settled in on Black Labs and we had a total of five of them over the years. Really great with the kids, protective, love the water, just great animals all around and highly recommended. All of ours were females they just seemed to be easier to train
- . I talked about us being more sophisticated, but we are also more knowledgeable when it comes to pet dander. We are cross breeding all kinds of animals, mostly with poodles. They make some pretty interesting animals, mostly cute, but not always ☺️☺️, but then again beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Regardless of your preference, it’s mostly done because they are more hypoallergenic friendly for people who have allergies, like my mom, but still want to be pet owners.☺️.
- I’m always reminded of King Solomon’s bold proclamation that there is nothing new under the sun, but some how we always come up with new things, or maybe we should just call it rebranding ☺️☺️. It’s to take something that has been around for a while or sometime and we repackage it . If you didn’t know that it had been around before, then for you it was new☺️. It’s like when people try to reinvent themselves. They may be able to market themselves differently or tweak a few things, but it’s not new. I’m not here today to burst bubbles, so if you say it’s new then it’s new☺️☺️.
- Ok, that was a round about way to say that we have always had cross breeds and we usually referred to them as mutts. Just as housewives became domestic engineers, we have redefined mutts as some kind super breeds.☺️☺️. In my experience, they were usually more intelligent than some of the ” pure ” breeds that we often pay so much money for. Randomly put any two breeds together and sometimes you get lucky and they are cute and smart as a whip, but not all the time and not consistently enough where we are just dying to have what is sometimes referred to as a Heinz 57, because we don’t exactly know what they are but we can see certain characteristics such as a Pitbull square head or a Chihuahua ears. Now it’s not just about the physical characteristics, because dogs have personality traits just like people do and some of them are known for bad things such as being aggressive or known for biting. Other one’s maybe known for more desirable traits such as being good guard dogs or the things that I said about our black Labs. It all matters, especially if you are letting them snuggle up with you at night, you might not want to wake up without a face in the morning ☺️☺️ .
- Supposed you end up with an animal that is cross bread with two distinctive undesirable personality traits. ? Something like a Jack Russell terrier, high, extremely high energy and then throw in that separation anxiety of that Boxer….nightmare ☺️. Since it has separation anxiety, when you are relaxing at home and the animal is right by your side on the couch, all is calm and right in the world. There are no signs of what looked like the Tasmanian devil that went through your kitchen earlier that same day☺️☺️. How do we reconcile the two? Bitter/ sweet, the loving verse the psycho ☺️☺️. It can be a real dilemma, that might best be solved with some kind of crate☺️☺️☺️.
- Let’s just leave that there and turn the page. I have seen a very similar behavior in my own life, and if I go around and start sniffing butt’s, feel free to find a crate for me as well ☺️☺️. I’m not alone here, and please let me try to explain myself, but not just me, but perhaps yourself as well 😊 ☺️. We totally get that we can’t be in entirely two different places at one time , but we absolutely can have multiple personality traits and things going on within us at one time. No!, I’m not talking about having some kind of multiple personality disorder, ☺️but something much closer to having dual citizenship. That’s when you have right standings under two different Nations. We get people here all the time with dual citizenship. This is the thing that makes me look and sound crazy at times, just like a Jack Russell terrier ☺️☺️. Imagine myself going to some foreign country and expecting that my mother tongue would also be theirs. It could also be me walking around in my current community, speaking French and just expecting for them to know what I am saying….a little ridiculous expectation ☺️☺️.
- This is the thing that baffles many and adds to their confusion of trying to understand Christians. We have dual citizenship. We are citizens of this world, but also In and of an eternal kingdom. We often find ourselves speaking the wrong language in the wrong kingdom. We also often operate with the customs and behaviors of one kingdom, when we should absolutely be practicing and carrying out kingdom values. The Beatles did a soundtrack for a James Bond score, I believe back in the late sixties or early seventies and I think the name of it was , “Live and Let Die”. In the progression of things one does follow the other, but it’s kind of a laissez-faire approach to life , that life just happens and that it doesn’t much matter how we conduct ourselves here, ……but nothing could be further from the truth…it all matters! Maybe, just maybe it makes more sense to say that we live as, “When in Rome “☺️☺️. That’s the clique of giving what we receive and to behave like the culture around us, and just go with the flow. I see Christians walking around with their heads down, trying to fly under the radar and the absolute last thing that they want to be known for is making waves☺️☺️. I find it also contradictory from what God has called us to. We are supposed to be salt and light. Salt is a preservative and we need to ask ourselves exactly what are we preserving☺️? The reference to light , is that we are supposed to be illuminating and pointing the way for others to have a real personal relationship with God. I say that it’s contradictory , because God took twelve very ordinary men and used them to turn the world on its head, and it’s still impacting lives every day, some two thousands years later.
- The contradiction and strife is within us. The confusing parts to ourselves as well to others, is that we continue to try and force a square peg into a round cylinder☺️☺️. We desperately almost at epidemic proportions at times to try and fit into a world that is not our home. We pretend to be something that we are not. We portray peasants , when in actuality we are princes and princesses. We are the kings kids who just way to often identify with an identity that should make us uncomfortable and drive us to our knees. It is our words and behaviors that leads those on the outside to say that they see no difference between us and them. I get it, we will sometimes use the same filthy language. We tell all of the same lies. We crave all of the same carnal pleasure, without a kingdom approach or mindset towards them .We see God’s blessings in our lives as a chance to hoard , opposed to sharing with the less fortunate. We on some level, make a mockery out of Christianity ourselves and then we are somehow offended when a comic or someone else uses the Lord’s name in a negative way. If we want it to cease then we need to lead by example ,and show our reverence for God on the outside of our lives and stop playing the part of the court’s jester. ☺️☺️ I don’t understand!, it’s just like the “N” word, we are offended by it, but we are primarily the one’s keeping it alive….stop!! and just let it die.
- Let’s just call it a hiccup and not so much a dilemma, but dual citizenship comes with two natures. The Bible is very clear on its depiction and teachings about the constant battle between the flesh and the spirit. We can posses and have very strong wills and motivations on our own and the battle being waged with in us is like a turbo and it super charges the energy that just intensifies all of the emotions and stinking thinking that we will often engage in. I don’t much look at it as an excuse, it’s just is what it is, and it’s something that we have to contend with each and every day, as long as we are on this side of eternity. The vile and often perverted thoughts that just randomly pop into your heads aren’t going anywhere or away, I know bummer ☺️☺️
- No, that’s not a cliff hanger, or the final word on the matter. God says that temptation is common and something that everyone has to deal with from time to time. It’s almost as if temptation is living in our heads, and that’s because it actually is☺️☺️. Yes, it knows you and your weaknesses, but a loving God always provides a way out for which we can flee. The truth be told is that we don’t often want to flee from temptation . We want it to be one of our closest friends and we just want to hang out, like a couple of Buds ☺️☺️. We need to learn to flee , whatever it is, or it will trap us in a cycle of shame and regret. I honest to God think that sometimes that we think that we can play with fire without getting burned ourselves. You need to name it and rebuke it. Yes, it can be the most delicious piece of chocolate cake that you have seen in a long time😉😉. It can be that new young hot intern, and you can swear by just looking at her that they must be loading them with new and better options, than the standard equipment on the older models ☺️☺️. It can be gambling, porn, an emotional affair at work or even just being a shopaholic. It’s anything that we just know better, but somehow lack the will power to say no or flee from it.
- The war within us is what the apostle Paul said keeps us from doing the good thing or the right thing. We want to do the right thing, but often do the complete opposite. This may sound like an over simplification, but the more time that you spend with God, the less temptation will come chasing after you and calling your name , like you are a pair of college frat brothers ☺️☺️ His holiness is to powerful for our ungodliness. It’s like a snow flake on a ninety degree day, just can’t simultaneously exist. God is our ever present helper. We have to stop jumping up in the mornings and rushing out without God and His armor that He gave us for the battle at hand . Pray and seek Him, while there is still time. Time with God is the cure for temptations of all kinds. Speaking of time…
- Till Next Time ✌️ Peace!
- Sandy The Southerner
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