My Beagle - Huey Luis, From Dogs to Adam

In mid-September, my little Beagle, Huey Luis was dog-napped. I just haven't gotten over it. He was a dog that we rescued and fostered. Then we found his owner and were ready to let him go, but the owner didn't want him, as their little sister was afraid of him. His name at that time was just Huey, but the boy who gave him to me
was a teenager named Luis. So, my Beagle became Huey Luis.

He had such a special way about him. I think he had to have been a puppy, when we first got him. He always slept on my bed right at my feet and wanted to protect me from anyone and everyone. He even got along with my Laboradors, Sophie and Gracie, and my roommate's Blue Heeler, Gizmo. But when I rescued a cat, Huey Luis' temperament changed. I had to laugh though cause he really was the most important dog in my life. My kitten, Jeremiah, that I res-cued along with four other kittens could never take his place. Jeremiah was the only kitten that survived, so we kept him. Then, the Labs treed a black cat that someone had abandoned in the woods and she became our female cat, named Peace. Huey was really put out of place when she came into the house. He did not like her from the minute she came in, and was bound and determined to keep her in my room. He was the king of the house, he thought. But Gracie was alpha dog and every once in a while, whenever Huey Luis got too big for his britches, Gracie would pin him to the floor and put him in his place.

Still, Huey Luis was my lap dog. He was the one who comforted me. He sang with me, stayed with me everywhere I was. He was my little joy. Of course I didn't really care for his high pitched bark, but it always let me know that someone was in my driveway that didn't belong there. I so miss my little guy. I wish that whoever stole him would return him. My Huey never left the yard. He was faithful to stay home. He always hung around back with Gizmo when we had to leave for a short time, and most of the time, we made sure that he was inside before we left. But that day, the kids said he got out just before we left. Ugh... life just hasn't been the same. I really do miss him. He was MY dog, my special friend. Every once in awhile, I will be driving through town and think that I hear his bark, and I'll stop, only to realize that it's someone else's dog. They just disappear and I never see them again.

There are people in a town nearby who do covert things... unkind things... and I just hope that they didn't nab my Huey. All this sap for an animal... well yes, they become our companions when humans aren't available.

I am a Creationist, admittedly. I do not believe man came from an ape. My main reason... if man came from apes, why are apes still around? Go figure... Also, I believe that there is evolution WITHIN a species, but not between species and there is clearly a demarcation between humankind and the animal kingdom. I believe the THEORY of Evolution is flawed.

Anyway, God created man higher than the animals in the first place. He made man in God's image. I really believe though that when God was creating the animals and bringing them before Adam... he put in the animal the ability to relate to man in a certain way. Yet, it was God who saw that Adam needed a soulmate... one who was his equal in every way... a female counterpart. So God created that for Adam, yet the animals remained and I believe that Adam had a very special relationship with the animals because they were presented first to Adam.

I can only imagine the look on Adam's face when Eve showed up. I had a picture just now of a naked Adam sitting on a rock with his hand on his knee looking at all the animals that Father God was fashioning and bringing to Adam to see if they would help Adam feel less lonely. And I can see Adam shaking his head saying... "Dad, they just don't have what I need." And Father, seeing Adam's true heart need, caused him to fall asleep and took the rib from Adam's side, fashioning Eve from Adam's flesh, so she would be of his kind, his DNA, his marrow. Then the next morning as Adam wakes up by the stream, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes, he sees this figure sitting beside him and runs half way across the Garden before he realizes that this is someone he wants to see.

Peering around the tree, Adam gazes upon this amazingly beautiful soulmate, and feels the pain in his side... the place where he was pierced, where his bride came from and looking again at the beautiful, ah inspiring woman in front of him, he had to sit down lest he faint with pleasure. He then looks over at Father God who is resting on the rock and states very clearly, "Dad, uhm, you've hit the nail on the head this time... oh baby... have you hit the nail on the head." Laughing Father blesses them and sends them off to enjoy the Garden cautioning them not to eat of the Tree of Life nor the Tree of Good/Evil.

It doesn't take much does it... to see that Father God had a plan from the very beginning. In that picture of Adam's side being pierced to bring forth his bride, there is a type and shadow of the Christ, when his side was pierced as he paid the price for the entire sin of the whole world, to buy back the relationship to Father that Adam and Eve lost in their disobedience in that Garden. Jesus Christ is the 2nd Adam, the pure Adam, the innocent one who came to redeem the world. The world is His bride. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, by being pierced in his hands and his feet and in his side brings forth the blood that redeems and atones permanently once and for all the sins of the world. He brings forth His Bride, the church. The church then is anyone who accepts this gift that Jesus Christ has paid the price for their sin and believes on His name and is called according to His purposes. All you have to do is receive it. That is it. It is a free gift. It doesn't have to be earned. It is FREE. He died that we might live and have all of the bad things that we've ever done wiped off of our slates forever, and ever, and ever.

In God, there is no time. He is endless. He knows your beginning from the end. Father God loved you so much that He sent His Son to take your place... His innocent Son died a cruel, humiliating, naked death to purchase back relationship. Why? Because of love. Father God loves you and I so very much. He wants us to come to Him. In the same way that we seek companionship from humans or animals, He seeks us. He built it into us... we need relationship. He is there regardless, even when the world has walked out. He is the Creator, and we are His creation... the entire world... there is not one culture that is left out. He loves us all, every tongue, every color, every nation. For we are all His children. He loves us all and He desires that none perish. He does not want us fighting one another, or hating one another. He wants us to love one another deeply from the heart.

Will you seek Him? Will you receive the love that He has to offer? All you have to do is call out His name... if you receive Him and believe in Him after reading this post, I want you to write to me at ramyalthea@yahoo.com. Wherever you are in the world... there isn't one place that escapes Father's gaze. He sees you. He knows what you are doing. He loves you just the same. Come to Him. He is waiting and listening... with wide open arms.

With all my love...
Ramy B