WiccanLiberal
09-12-2013, 03:05 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/10/booming/bad-dog.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
<nyt_headline version="1.0" type=" ">Bad Dog</nyt_headline>"It’s easy to love a well-behaved dog. It’s harder to love Chance, with his bristly personality and tendency toward violence. Yet in the end, I measure the success of my relationship with Chance by its challenges, because if I can’t love him at his most imperfect what use is love?"
The author write movingly about her pet. In truth she is writing about all relationships. We love not because of the good but in spite of the bad. All of us have faults and we love and are loved because we overlook faults. May we all be as forgiving and forgiven.
<nyt_headline version="1.0" type=" ">Bad Dog</nyt_headline>"It’s easy to love a well-behaved dog. It’s harder to love Chance, with his bristly personality and tendency toward violence. Yet in the end, I measure the success of my relationship with Chance by its challenges, because if I can’t love him at his most imperfect what use is love?"
The author write movingly about her pet. In truth she is writing about all relationships. We love not because of the good but in spite of the bad. All of us have faults and we love and are loved because we overlook faults. May we all be as forgiving and forgiven.