Why Jesus Did Not Have Pets
Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house, and went off to a solitary place to pray. Mark 1:35 I often get up at first light to go sit in the yard, read my Bible, pray, and watch the sun rise. Life is wonderful but exhausting, and this "mountain top" time is very important for me to get my head on straight at the start of the day. Jesus often did the same thing, we're told. And of course there are all those song writers who come to the garden alone, and who love to live on the mountain top, and who rest them in the thought of birds and trees and skies and seas...so I feel like I'm in pretty good company. Six a.m. finds me fixing myself a cup of tea in the dark kitchen, being very sneaky so as not to wake up my wife and daughter. The Puppy hears me moving around and asks to go out. She is not trained to stay in the yard or come when called yet, so I take her out and slip her leash over the garden fencepost. Then I