LUCKY GARVIN: The Choices We Make

Lucky Garvin
Lucky Garvin

Things happen in the course of a day, some routine, others not so much. Then there are occasions when what should have happened didn’t, and, of course, there are the ‘shouldn’t have happened but did’ kind of events. Then there are coincidences: “a remarkable concurrence of events or conditions without apparent causal connection.”

Less academic, but perhaps more to the point, a coincidence might be God clearing His throat, or setting before us an unlikely confluence of circumstances merely to see what we will do with them.

Sabrina and I love Dobermans, and have adopted all we have ever owned. Pressed to honesty, Sabrina would admit that of all the loving hearts which crowd her history, Athena was perhaps the most loved. She was a smallish, black/tan Dobie with unfixed [floppy] ears.

Now, let’s advance to the present day.

In the state of Maryland, a young woman bought a black and tan, smallish Doberman six-month-old puppy. The puppy got sick. She took him to several vets, spent $1100, and there was no improvement. She had a childhood friend who lived about an hour from her; they would chat once a week. On this particular occasion, she mentioned her problems with her sick Doberman.

Her old friend just happened to be our daughter-in-law.

The young woman could no longer afford her pet, so she bought him to us. Our vets determined she had an intermittent intestinal obstruction, which was surgically repaired.

So now we have another Dobie, bought to us by a series of intercept-courses, the odds of each admittedly astronomic.

By the way, the name of this floppy-eared Dobie is… Athena.

We cannot long be a part of life before we realize the amount of unattended suffering in the world.  For the most solicitous of hearts, there is no way to remedy all – or even most of it. We cannot be responsible for all; but can we be responsible for each…?

Thus, some years back, God, Sabrina, and I made a deal: We said to Him, if you have a being in need, put it in our path, and we’ll do our best to help. That will be our ‘each.’ It is certainly true you cannot water every plant in the woodland, but you can do something for the one right in front of you; the one in your path…

The choice is ours.

Lucky Garvin

 

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