Save the Pets

I got my lab results back today.  It's no wonder I was so tired.  (See them at http://onedailyserving.weebly.com/the-stats.html)  I'm currently anemic with low electrolytes and blood platelets.  This evening I went and bought some vitamins.

If that brings up my numbers I will continue to keep my food intake as it is...one daily serving of Numana.

Speaking of Numana, Jay is currently over in Kenya dispensing food.  What an amazing trip that would be for my family, in particular, my children.  I hope this project opens their eyes considerably.

Over the weekend we got a flyer in our newspaper from IAMS dog food.

Really?  It costs only 23 cents to feed a hungry human.  Our priorities are a bit out of control.  It irritates me that they seem to be using the same language that is used for pleas to help the starving around the world.

Humans were created in God's image to be in dominion over the animals.

A listened to man say yesterday that he had a pet rabbit for a while as a child...and then one day it was gone.  He asked his father, "Where's my rabbit?"  His dad pointed at the oven and said, "We're higher on the food chain."

What about you?  Is your pet an "idol" in your life?  Does it keep you from traveling because you can't leave it?  Does it cost you resources that you really can't afford or that could be better used?

Pets are just pets.  And in many countries, they are supper.

And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 

 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”  (Genesis 1:24-26, emphasis mine)

Can't wait to see what PETA has to say about this...