{"id":1862,"date":"2014-04-20T19:46:53","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T23:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/?p=1862"},"modified":"2014-04-20T19:46:53","modified_gmt":"2014-04-20T23:46:53","slug":"resurrection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/2014\/04\/20\/resurrection\/","title":{"rendered":"Resurrection"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mason\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This was holy week, for Christians and Jews.\u00a0 The energy of this week was at work on many levels.\u00a0 In the midst of church going, fasting, cooking, gathering and praying little miracles were happening.\u00a0 Those little miracles are the true resurrection and the light.\u00a0 Reminders that there is something bigger at work\u2026always.<\/p>\n

Little Mason.\u00a0 He\u2019s the slow one of the three dogs my friend Marlo mothers.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want to say she owns them because truth be told they actually own her.\u00a0 They are children in the truest sense of the word.<\/p>\n

Wake up one morning, and I mean early morning, to little Mason having a\u2026something\u2026seizure.\u00a0 Off to the Animal Hospital just minutes away and they can\u2019t seem to find anything wrong.\u00a0 Take him home and a good night\u2019s sleep turns into another\u2026something\u2026.seizure in the later morning.\u00a0 Off they go again and this time she leaves him.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to leave a dog-child at the hospital.\u00a0 A call comes to get permission to do an MRI and spinal tap.\u00a0 Of course she says.\u00a0 The day goes by and finally the results are\u2026something\u2026not all that good.\u00a0 The spinal cord is being crushed by\u2026something\u2026the blood to his brain is\u2026something.\u00a0 And on and on in medical speak that could spin your head around.\u00a0 What to do?\u00a0 If we do nothing, he will live a fragile life that will degenerate into a fateful decision eventually.<\/p>\n

Is there a chance for him, little Mason?\u00a0 Say what you want about soon to be ex-husbands sometimes they react exactly the way they once would have\u2026in a good way. There is history and shared values from all the good years.\u00a0 There are means that perhaps you don’t have and a generosity born of…something.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0So several hours later and many thousands of dollars later little Mason is better\u2026much better\u2026like not even a little slow now better.\u00a0 So much better that the doctor wants to write him up in the veterinary journal and follow his progress better.<\/p>\n

Praying that God gives you what you need can often lead you to make decisions that will do just that, give you what you need.\u00a0 Thankfully Mason will be fine.\u00a0 His siblings, especially Bella, will have him back in a way they\u2019ve never known.\u00a0 A painful divorce may be imminent but a reliable friendship may emerge.\u00a0 And a dog mother knows like she knows that her decision was helped by her faith in doing what was needed through a gift from God.<\/p>\n

Buona Pasqua<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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