Things that bind...

Its strange sometimes the things that can bind folks together, the same as the things that can cause division or seperation. My faith has caused great seperation or remoteness maybe a more accurate description to other believers, but things in life bind folks together. Sometiems it will be kids or family, sometimes, something as mundane and ordinary as household pets. One neighbour that I have always been able to rely on if needing assistance with something, I first got to know him cos we used to bump into each other when walking our perspective dogs. We've probably known each other close to 15 years. But it was the dogs which started the connection. Then we found out we had other things in common which I won't go into. Now there dog (Molly) is dying of leukemia, and the guys wife told me most folks can't understand why she feels as she does over "only a dog". Yet I had occasion to call them about something, to ask if her husband could do something for me when he can, and because I know and have been through losing my dogs didn't think her feelings stupid or dim or insignificant, and she was quite touched. But its strange the things that divide sometimes, and its strange the things that bind. If I move from here, I guess neighbour wise, they will be the ones I miss, and not really any of the others. And if not for our mutual love of owning dogs, then, we may never have known each other, and I would be even more in a fix for managing with things that are physically impossible day to day than I am. So, yes, its strange the things that bind. |