Spiritual Sundays - The White Dog

I have no picture of this remarkable dog, but I will tell you the story.
When our children were young, I was a jogger. Every morning, I would get up early and run around the park area near our home.

One morning, I had just started out, when a big white dog joined me and jogged along beside me as if he had been doing this for years. It made me feel very safe to have this huge dog running with me. Halfway around the park, a rabbit ran across our path and I thought, "There goes the dog. He's bound to chase after the rabbit!" But the dog ignored the rabbit and stayed right beside me. We passed a construction area, and a big truck with workers in it drove by - but I felt very secure with my jogging companion.

Arriving home, I collapsed in a chair on our front patio, and my dog friend lay down beside me, looking at me as if to say "We had a good run, didn't we?"

Wanting the children to see the dog, I poked my head in the front door and called them to come out. As I turned around, the dog was gone. I looked up and down the street and up the hill in the back yard, thinking I would see him leaving. It had only been a minute - no time for him to get very far away. There was no sign of the dog.

As I pondered this incident, I wondered if this white dog could have been an angel sent to protect me from some unknown danger. The Scripture verse came to mind from Psalms 91:11 "For He shall give His angels charge over you to keep you in all your ways." Or in the Living Bible "For He orders His angels to protect you wherever you go."

I never saw the dog again, although I looked for him every time I jogged.
I will never forget him, or God's watchcare protection over me that one morning.