Bloggers set aside their blogs for various reasons: writer’s block, boredom, lack of response from readers, changes in seasons of life (and therefore changes in blog emphases), etc. In our case, the explanation is summed up in one word: puppy.

Yes, Joe and I chose (chose: a word we often remind ourselves when she’s being a true puppy) to get a dog! Her official name is Katharine Wright Henderson (her first and middle name chosen because the original Katharine Wright was sister to Orville and Wilbur!), but we all call her Kati!

We are smitten!

Life, however, must, should, and will continue, so the blog will as well, because it is where we share our lives and strive to give encouragement through the lessons God is teaching us. And He’s using Kati to teach us new lessons and lovingly remind us how very similar we are to our feisty little puppy and therefore how much we can learn from her!

For example, when we brought her home from the Greenville Humane Society, we were pretty naive. Even though both of us had adopted dogs in the past, we had forgotten that when we teach her how to do something, she won’t—I repeat, won’t—continue to do/not do that thing unless there is consistent repetition, patience, forgiveness, and a whole bunch o’ love thrown in!

Yes, that’s been a great reminder for me of how God treats us: consistently teaching us, patiently guiding us, forgiving us because of His great mercy, and loving us with an unconditional love that cannot be measured. His mercy, love, and grace abound!

Yes, Kati needs us to love on her, but I think it’s God’s love for us that will be the greatest lesson we can learn from Kati. And here we thought we would be the ones doing all the training!

[Click here to read Ephesians 2:1-9 on BibleGateway.com. This passage from the Bible sums this up beautifully.]