Slow Obedience: A Doggone Lesson

“Teach me to do Your will,
For You are my God;
Your Spirit is good.
Lead me in the land of uprightness.” Psalm 143:10

“I don’t know what’s going on with you Gracie,” I told one of my precious ministry dogs one morning.

She had been dumped at a gas station years ago, hit by two cars on the same day, and by the time she was finally rescued six weeks later, her broken bone had already set in place.

Sure, she was slightly disabled, sometimes a little uncomfortable perhaps in her unusual gait, but...