Wittenberg Gate: On Dogs and Grace

Dory at Wittenberg Gate writes, in a April 12, 2005, post:

I am convinced that God made dogs to enable us to see grace from the grace-giver's perspective, rather than our usual position as a recipient of grace. At our house we have a new canine addition, a mixed-breed (mostly lab) nine week old pup named Bob. His older brother, Matthias, is a four year old dog with so many bloodlines that we figure he must be like the original dog "kind" that padded after Noah when he disembarked from the ark...

She goes on to mention some of the ways she thinks that living with dogs can teach someone about God's grace toward people. I especially like her first one: "He loves us even when we're yucky."