More flowers! Oh no. I’ve got to get out of this dog hotel so I can have more adventures.
All over my trails are these bushes full of white blossoms.
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Wordless Week – Day 5
The weekend is over and here I am, still stuck at the dog hotel. And all I have left to show you are flower pictures. I hope you don’t get too bored with them.
In the spring I see a lot of these plants with these purple blossoms.
But this is the only one of these plants I’ve seen that did this.
Follow Me
Hey person, did Jesus ever get that hole in the roof fixed after he healed that guy who couldn’t walk?
What? The Bible doesn’t say anything about it? How am I supposed to sleep at night if I’m worried if there’s still a hole in the roof or not?
Jesus did what?
He signed up another disciple? Didn’t he have enough already?
Did this new disciple catch a lot of fish too?
I’ll listen if there’s fish.
There’s food in the story? Okay, I’ll listen.
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In Jesus’ day the Israelites hated the Roman government that ruled over them because the Roman’s were very oppressive. They also hated the tax collectors because they were collecting taxes for the Roman government. These tax collectors were Jews who not only worked for the Roman government, but usually collected more tax than required and kept the extra for themselves.
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What does that have to do with food?
The food is coming?
I’ll listen then.
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Jesus saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth and he said to him, “Follow me.”
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Why would Jesus want someone nobody liked on his team? Wouldn’t that put him at a disadvantage?
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The food’s almost here?
I’ll listen then.
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Matthew got up and followed Jesus and then invited Jesus to dinner at his house.
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Do you think Matthew would invite me too?
I’ll listen, but do you mind if I drool while I’m listening?
I can’t help it if I drool, but if you give me a treat I might stop.
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Matthew also invited a bunch of tax collectors and “sinners” to have dinner with them. Some of the religious people called Pharisees saw this and asked Jesus’ disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and ‘sinners’?”
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I’d eat with them too as long as they shared their food – and gave me loves.
I am listening.
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Jesus heard the Pharisee’s question and said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
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Does that mean that Jesus still loves me even when I’m getting into mischief?
Woo woo! Jesus loves me! I hope he’ll bring me some fish.
Wordless Week – Day 4
I’d really like to get out of this dog hotel so I can go after those pesky scrub jays on my trails.
And the quail that snuck into my yard.
Wordless Week – Day 3
This wordless thing is getting really bad – especially when all my person will let me post are flower pictures. At least they’re pictures of flowers on my trails. I hope I get out of this dog hotel soon.
Each year is a new adventure on my trails, because some flowers do well one year and other flowers do well the next. This year these bushes are filling up with yellow blossoms.
Wordless Week – Day 2
I’m still at the dog hotel, but I saw Ghost Dog the other day.
He looked at me and wagged his tail.
Then he disappeared like he always does.
I saw Ghost Dog a couple days after that. He was sitting outside my friend and neighbor dog Toby’s house. I heard that Ghost Dog came in Toby’s house and hung out for awhile.
Wordless Week
I don’t believe it! My person has dumped me off in the dog hotel again and she said she doesn’t even have time to be my secretary while she’s gone. I can’t write about my adventures or anything. This will be a wordless week for sure.
My person gets so crazy with her camera that she even takes pictures of weeds.
I pushed my way in front of the camera so I could eat those things.
Stone Steps
I was walking down the wash on my trails and I found some really cool stairs. I thought I’d check them out. And the only way I know how to check out stairs is to climb them.
So up I went – climbing up those stone steps.
This might be really something. Stone steps. It sounds like I might be on my way to an ancient mystery or something.
I finally made it to the top. It took me a really long time. Maybe 30 seconds or something.
Whew! That was hard work.
So I got to the top and found some letters on one of the rocks.
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Now this really is a mystery. I don’t know what those letters say. It’s a word I don’t understand.
I had to get my person to help me with this. She always helps me when I can’t read something.
Private?
Why would it say that?
Isn’t that someone who’s in the army?
Why would they put Private on a rock at the top of these stairs?
I think I’d better go to that house up there and check this out.
The Snake Did It
Look at this! Just look at this! Look what my snake did while you were gone, person.
I tried to stop him. Really I did.
But he got to that box and tore it apart before I could get to him.
It was a good thing that box was empty, because it used to be full of my treats. I would have been really upset if my snake had torn up that box and eaten all the treats out of it.
Bad snake!
Person, he’s really a sneaky snake. I didn’t even hear him tearing up that box.
I just came out here and it was already torn apart.
What am I going to do with this snake?
What do you think I should do, person?
I know. I’m going to give that snake what for.
He’ll never know what hit him.
See if that snake ever tears up one of my boxes again.
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A Hole in the Roof
You’re what, person? Now that you told me about Jesus being raised from the dead that’s the end of the story, isn’t it?
It isn’t?
But you’re not going to tell it to me now? You mean I don’t get a Bible story this week?
You’re going to what? Tell me about more of Jesus’ miracles from before he died and rose again?
I like miracles.
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Jesus had been traveling around Galilee and when he returned to his home in Capernaum so many people came that his whole house was full and even outside the door there was no room left.
Jesus preached to all those people.
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Did he preach about how they could get more fish?
I was just asking.
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While Jesus was preaching, four men came carrying a paralytic on a mat.
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A what?
You mean he can’t move? Poor guy. At least that leper that Jesus healed could leap.
Okay, I’ll listen.
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The house was so crowded that the men couldn’t get the paralyzed man anywhere near Jesus. So they got up on the roof and made an opening in the roof above Jesus.
After digging through, they lowered the man on his mat into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus.
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Wasn’t Jesus mad about the hole in the roof? What if it rained?
I’m listening.
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Jesus saw the faith of the four men and said to the paralytic, “Friend, your sins are forgiven.”
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If I jump through a hole in the roof and land at Jesus’ feet will he forgive my sins? Oh, I forgot. I don’t do anything wrong. It’s always Scratchy.
I am listening.
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There were some teachers of the law in the crowd who were pretty upset when Jesus forgave the man’s sins because only God can forgive sins. But Jesus knew what they were thinking so He said to them, “Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, take your mat and walk’?”
Then Jesus said to the paralyzed man, “I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.”
The man stood up, took his mat, and went home praising God.
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Jesus told those teachers of the law a thing or two, didn’t he?
But there’s still one thing I want to know.
Who’s going to fix that hole in the roof?
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