We just came home from Chapel Hill where we had a great time visiting with some old friends and introducing Vivy to both Duke and UNC. Wow, I love the Triangle! I'm sure we'll have some fun stories and good pictures to post soon.
Occupying our minds more urgently is sweet Millie who is about to get an outrageously good chicken, popcorn, cheese, and peanut butter dinner (good in dog cuisine, anyway). Poor Millie has been struggling with some nerve problems and kidney failure, and sadly things have worked their way to their end this weekend. I'm taking her in to see Dr. Doyle tomorrow morning. We should get her ashes in a few weeks and I think I want to take them to Mt. Mitchell - that's where she went hiking with me the most often and she always had a blast.
We're so sad that it's hard to write, but my spirit just absolutely soared when I read this quote from a Randy Alcorn article on Christianity Today. Praise God for his awesomeness in everything, especially the little extravagances that show his outlandishly lavishing love.
Joni Eareckson Tada says, "If God brings our pets back to life, it wouldn't surprise me. It would be just like him. It would be totally in keeping with his generous character … Exorbitant. Excessive. Extravagant in grace after grace. Of all the dazzling discoveries and ecstatic pleasures heaven will hold for us, the potential of seeing Scrappy would be pure whimsy—utterly, joyfully, surprisingly superfluous. … Heaven is going to be a place that will refract and reflect in as many ways as possible the goodness of joy of our great God, who delights in lavishing love on his children."
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