A lesson learnt

Ive finally found some spare time to update this blog today.. Feels like a really long time since ive wrote something here. But today didnt go too well for me. Lotsa emotions..



It all happened early this morning on my way to church. I noticed this medium sized doggie tailing after a man.. who was frantically trying to shrug it off. Then i wondered: Why is the dog following the man? Doesnt seem like its owner. Perhaps its a kind soul who fed it some breakfast.. After much hide & seek, the man finally got his way and crept away quietly without being caught by the doggie. Then it all happened in a flash. The dog panicked and searched high and low for the man..it thot the man crossed the busy road and thus tried to weave its way through the traffic. I was watching the dog carefully trying to avoid the vehicles when a bus came and HONKED at it..Phew! What a close shave! The dog managed to dogde the bus.. but unfortunately, it was caught unaware by a speeding pick up on the next lane! Too late.. blood was shed. A life was lost that morning. I was completely devastated. Horrified. Shocked and traumatised. Im not exaggerating.. the memories i had when my dannyboy was almost ripped apart by 2 black dogs rushed into my mind. The dog just lay motionless in the middle of the road. I couldnt cry.. i couldnt bring myself to take another look and the corpse and just hurried away from the unforgettable scene. Later in church when i sat alone before service started, i started to worry abt the dog. What if the dog was still alive? Or.. what if noone shifted it to the side and the dog was being run over by numerous vehicles over an over again.. like an eternal punishment in hell?? I felt so bad that i had just left the dog alone.. hence i called the SPCA to send pple to pick it up. But the SPCA said i had to confirm if the dog was still there.. so i went back to the scene to check and one kind passer-by shifted the corpse to the side of the road. I went upclose to take a look..and my heart just broke. Tears welled up in my eyes. The poor dog was lying there with its tongue sticking out. It sure was dead.



Who was to blame? The pick up driver who was speeding and didnt notice the dog? Or is it the heartless man who managed to shrug off the dog? The man who caused the dog to dash fearlessly across the road.. risking its life to find the man. Or was it I who didnt stop the dog in time when it tried to cross the dangerous road when the traffic light turned green? Or did the dog have its just deserts? It was just too stupid to dash across the road like that. I found myself trying to justify the dog's death and that it was just an accident. No one was to blame. The driver couldnt have stopped in time to avoid the dog since it was speeding and a sudden brake might have caused serious chain accidents behind him. The man who tried to push the dog away was prob right to do that so as to get on with his own life. Me who couldnt have stopped the dog from crossing as it all happened too fast. The dog who was definitely innocent and knew nothing about crossing roads in such a busy city surely didnt deserve such an ending. It was then i started to ask God why? Why did God create animals only to have them die in such gruesome manners? Why did God create animals when they had to struggle for survival in the cruel world?



The praise and worship songs we had sung during service today were mostly abt praising Him for His creation and how He loves us so much to create the wonderful world for us. I then realised that altho the things that happen around us seem unfair and unpredictable, God Himself is in control of all things. I cant blame Him for things that happen becoz He has a reason for it. Perhaps this incident had served its purpose of teaching me the unpredictability of life, and that i have to treasure this life..and not just dash through life foolishly like the poor doggie whose life ended in such a tragic manner.



"But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand." - Matt 7:26 I ask God for the wisdom to live my life according to His will, so that i can build my house on solid rock.. a house that will not fall apart when the wind blows or the rain falls.