Why Turtles Don’t Fly

I love to play a little game with my special needs ministry dogs paralyzed Miss Mercy and Grace whereby we have mother—doggy-daughters conversations. I, of course, have to do all the talking. So I speak for myself. And for them. Imagining what they might say. Enjoying it to the utmost in the midst of an otherwise very intense life in ministry on the road for Jesus.

“Mommy, how come turtles don’t fly?” Grace asked as I walked her in the still dark early morning.

“Because God didn’t create them to...