These are a few pictures from after Pip's neuter and rabies shot. He got to wear the cone of shame for about a week. It's funny how it led to some pretty profound thoughts for me. There was a procedure that we, as his owners, knew he had to go through. It had to be done. He didn't know why. Trustingly, he let me take him to the vet and leave him with strangers. Then there was pain and soreness afterwards and this stupid thing around his head that kept him from nursing his wound.
At church, someone was comparing their week's experiences to gospel principles. I started applying them to Pippin's experience. We're sent to this earth by a loving Heavenly Father who watches over us. There are painful experiences he knows we'll go through. We don't know why, and as we suffer their after-effects, in pain and with heart soreness, we turn to him. As Pip did, we probably suffer some depression. The worst part is is that we can't fix the wound. We want to get to it, to make it better in our own way, not knowing that sometimes that makes the problem worse. The only way to be healed is to trust God and know that eventually the pain will pass, and we will be healed. I can only imagine my Father in Heaven's love for me as I look at him with my sad eyes and ask, "Why?" It killed me that Pip couldn't understand when I explained it would only be for a short time and that there were wonderful things ahead. (Hello Hondo dog park now that he has his rabies shot. AWESOME!)
