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Sleeping Dog Prayer


Image from the blog - Jacko the Sleeping Dog.

Sleeping dog lies beside me, growling to her dreams.
She seems like an infant dozing happily next to me.
If I rise to switch the laundry or to make a call -
she will rise, with blinking eyes and follow me.

She is content to be close to me as she sleeps.
She is content to go where I go.
She is content to simply be the black and white dog I found at the SPCA, but now she has a home.

If only I were like this small creature -
content to sit and live close to her master, not fretting about what is to come.
Then I would not be planning what is next and be content to be who I am and where I am.
I could sit with my master and rest, dozing at his side.

T.L.Eastman 2010'
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Mel said…
Oh, now how true is that?!

There's that saying "It's a dog's life".......in more ways than one, I'd like that.

Well, 'cept for having to be turned outside to do my 'stuff' everytime. LOL

OMG I don't believe I'm going to hit 'publish' with that remark. *laughing*
2:14 PM EST
Tara Lamont said…
"Stuff" happens - that is another reason I write here. LOL
2:18 PM EST
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