Dog Loves You<\/b><\/p>\n
Every year the youngest children in the Trinity Lutheran preschool in Crown Point, Indiana, steal the show at their end-of-the-year program. This year they did the usual waves to parents, mugging and tugging at their clothes. The highlight came when 11 children\u2014none of whom could yet read\u2014proudly held up brightly colored 3-foot-high letters that spelled: DOG LOVES YOU.<\/p>\n
Richard A. Vurva, Merrillville, Indiana<\/p>\n
C. H. Spurgeon<\/b><\/p>\n
One day C. H. Spurgeon was walking through the English countryside with a friend. As they strolled along, the evangelist noticed a barn with a weather vane on its roof. At the top of the vane were these words: GOD IS LOVE. Spurgeon remarked to his companion that he thought this was a rather inappropriate place for such a message. \u201cWeather vanes are changeable,\u201d he said, \u201cbut God\u2019s love is constant.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t agree with you about those words, Charles,\u201d replied his friend. \u201cYou misunderstood the meaning. That sign is indicating a truth: Regardless of which way the wind blows, God is love.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Rosemary\u2019s Rag Doll<\/b><\/p>\n
There is a natural, logical kind of loving that loves lovely things and lovely people. That\u2019s logical. But there is another kind of loving that doesn\u2019t look for value in what it loves, but that CREATES value in what is loves. Like Rosemary\u2019s rag doll.<\/p>\n
When Rosemary, my youngest child, was three, she was given a little rag doll, which quickly became an inseparable companion. She had other toys that were intrinsically far more valuable, but none that she loved like she loved the rag doll.<\/p>\n
Soon the rag doll became more and more rag and less and less doll. It also became more and more dirty. If you tried to clean the rag doll, it became more ragged still. And if you didn\u2019t try to clean the rag doll, it became dirtier still. The sensible thing to do was to trash the rag doll. But that was unthinkable for anyone who loved my child. If you loved Rosemary, you loved the rag doll\u2014it was part of the package.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf anyone says \u2018I love God\u2019 yet hates his brother or sister, he is a liar,\u201d (I John 4:20) \u201clove me, love my rag dolls,\u201d says God, \u201cincluding the one you see when you look in the mirror. This is the first and greatest commandment.\u201d<\/p>\n
– Ian Pitt-Watson<\/p>\n
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