Great Dog Stories (31 page)
Authors: M. R. Wells
One day I was out shopping for new kitchen appliances for the remodel. My cell phone rang. It was my contractor—calling with amazing news. A worker helping to install a glass door on a shower in one of my bathrooms had found my emerald on the tub’s drain. I was in shock. I’d used that tub since the emerald had gone missing. By all accounts, that stone should have been long gone. But there it was! God had not only restored my treasure but multiplied my faith—and my contractor’s faith as well!
Jesus’s disciples thought they had lost a treasure too—one more precious by far than a dog or a jewel. They thought they’d lost their beloved Lord Jesus to death. They didn’t fully understand what He had taught them. They didn’t quite believe He would be raised from the dead. Even when His body went missing from the tomb, some thought it had simply been moved.
Mary Magdalene was one of those. When a pair of angels appeared to her and asked why she was crying, she told them, “They have taken my Lord away, and I don’t know where they have put him” (John 20:13). But she and Jesus’s other disciples soon learned that God had miraculously restored His Son, their Messiah—and through Him, would do the same for all who trusted Him for their salvation.
Precious as Beasley was to her people, glad as I was to get my jewel back, the greater treasure was seeing God at work. I am so grateful my God is a God of restoration. And I am grateful that through Christ’s death, all those who would be lost to sin and death are “found” to spend eternity with Him.
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost (Luke 19:10).
Have you ever lost a treasure (pet, object, person) that God restored? How did He do it? How has it affected your faith? How can you pray for restoration in your own and others’ lives?
| M.R. Wells | |
A Crate and a Manger | 42 |
A Time to Wean | 109 |
And the Dog Came Back | 118 |
Anything but His Toes | 56 |
The Dog Not Chosen | 67 |
The Dog Who Wouldn’t Fight | 15 |
Don’t Pick at It or It Won’t Get Well | 179 |
The Facebook Bark | 208 |
God’s Plum Jam | 230 |
The Gospel According to Munchie | 222 |
Jazzmin’s “Ian Watch” | 33 |
Life Preserver with Paws | 88 |
Marley and Goliath | 215 |
Munchie Gets a Leg Up | 238 |
Playpen Theology | 161 |
Puppy in a Haystack | 247 |
The Saga of Walter Brennan | 26 |
Skunk Wars | 140 |
Why Wally Bloomed | 193 |
| Kris Young | |
A Different Kind of Leash | 49 |
The Appointed Time | 99 |
The Beagle and the Bus | 70 |
The Best Gift Ever | 226 |
Chasing Buggies | 197 |
The Dog Who Played with Fire | 188 |
Driving on Faith | 78 |
Dream Dog Guarantee | 91 |
Freeing Shadow | 22 |
Hook, Line, and Milk Jug | 153 |
Hopelessly Devoted to You | 37 |
I Am the Tailgate | 121 |
If the Dog Says “I Do” | 136 |
No Other Dogs Before Me | 144 |
Now You See Her, Now You Don’t | 113 |
Paper Dog Delight | 212 |
Squirrels and Girls | 175 |
Tag, You’re It | 242 |
Vengeance Is Mine Sayeth the Dog | 165 |
| Connie Fleishauer | |
All Her Children | 74 |
Diablo, or Not? | 45 |
Dog of Good Cheer | 234 |
The Dog That Stuck Closer Than a Brother | 60 |
Gentledog Stuart | 133 |
The Gift of Life | 19 |
Gone with the Wyndy | 184 |
His Master’s Keeper | 126 |
The Making of a Champion | 157 |
Papillon Heaven Can Wait | 95 |
The Pup That Wouldn’t Give Up | 205 |
Scary Larry | 105 |
Short, But Not Shortchanged | 219 |
Spitfire Spit and Polished | 148 |
Squitchey Love | 30 |
Stuart’s Heart Vision Goggles | 53 |
To Stray or Not to Stray | 171 |
Trust and Be on TV | 84 |
M.R. Wells
has written extensively for children’s television and video programming, including several Disney shows, the animated PBS series
Adventures from The Book of Virtues
, and the action video series
Bibleman
. She shares her Southern California home with the kitties and puppies she adores: Muffin, Bo, Munchie, Becca, and Marley.
Kris Young
has worked as a screenwriter for more than 20 years and currently teaches screenwriting at the LA Film Studies Center and UCLA. He lives in Southern California with his wife, Celine, and son, Skye.
Connie Fleishauer
is a teacher and writer and enjoys filmmaking. She is also trained in voice-over work. She is the wife of a California farmer, a mother of three, a mother-in-law of two, and a grandma of one. Currently she and her husband care for Stuart, a Welsh corgi, and Squitchey, a little rescued dog.
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