Let It Snow

Well Christmas can come anytime now. Asherel bought Honeybun a Mrs. Claus outfit, complete with hat. With her usual equanimity, Honeybun submitted to trying on the outfit. As Honeybun trotted about the house, hat flipped jauntily over one ear, Asherel went back to her room.
"Come take the outfit off poor Honeybun!" I called out.
"Why?" asked Asherel.
Honeybun looked at me.
"Because it isn't even Christmas yet!"
Honeybun mouthed, "Thank you."
Asherel came and removed the outfit and Honeybun shook all over, then lay down with her head between her paws watching us. What next?

She is such a patient dog. She seems to understand that Asherel, for whatever reason, enjoys seeing her dressed like a little human. I went to the mall yesterday and saw a couple shopping...with a dog in a stroller. Gimme a break. I am pretty sure that isn't even legal. Service dogs in a shopping mall are one thing, but dogs that are in the pitiable position of being forced to pretend to be humans...that is a whole other enchilada.
We humans do such ridiculous things to dogs.

We treat many things as something they are not. Christmas itself is one of those things. How did it get so crazy...so far from what it was intended to be? It is supposed to be about the celebration of the birth of the Savior of the world. How did Santa Claus, and reindeer, and grinches enter in?

I wanted to shake the couple with the dog in the stroller. I wanted to yell, "That is not a baby! It is a dog! Dogs don't belong in strollers!"

But I passed them by, and wondered if the dog was pleased by this idolatry, or did he submit with the same stoic resignation as Honeybun, knowing that in the end, they would recognize he really was just a dog?

Jeremiah 16:19-21 (NIV)
Lord, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in time of distress, to you the nations will come from the ends of the earth and say, “Our ancestors possessed nothing but false gods, worthless idols that did them no good. [20] Do people make their own gods? Yes, but they are not gods!” [21] “Therefore I will teach them---this time I will teach them my power and might. Then they will know that my name is the Lord.



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