"She's Not Going To Freak Out Is She?"

So, I have started these random prayerwalks. I had thought about doing it for quite a while, but never really did anything with it. Recently, I got a book called PrayerWalking and have started reading it a little in between migraines and other health issues. I also was intrigued by a friends story about a "prayerwalk" she recently went on. This prompted me to begin my own PrayWalking. Tonight, SO many things came to mind that I could write about but I have decided that the last thing I experienced on my walk is probably the best. One of the things I worry about most when on a walk are dogs. Unleshed and even some leshed dogs. Tonight while walking through a new neighborhood I walked by a car playing rap music. The girl didn't see me and therefore opened the back of the door. At the same time a pretty chocolate and black striped pitbull jumps from the back seat and the girl see's me,
instantly she says to her friend; "She's not going to freak out is she?" Comforting words to an unarmed walker, I must say! I immediately went into prayer mode for my safety. I didn't run. I just pretended I didn't here her and crossed the street. A few moments later I hear someone yelling at the top of their lungs behind me. I turn and running at full speed straight for me is...the pitbull. So, what I do? What I always do in a crisis. What I always do when I am unsure. What I have been taught to do by my Father. I stand! The next thing I know this dog is in front of me. She jumps up on me and begins licking my face as if I were her long lost owner. I think of my friend Kim Lange. Everyone knows that I am "such an animal person" I start laughing. The dogs owner comes up to me and she is red-faced apologizing profusly. Saying "I don't know why she took off like that, she never does that! I am so sorry she jumped on you like that!" I tell her I would rather have her jump on me than bite me. She laughed and I was off again. I was thinking about it on the way home. You know they say that there are two things one does in danger; flight or fight. I am very thankful that I am not a flyer...just think of all the love I would have missed out on!

the TRUTH in LOVE, Heidi