DEXY’S (MIS) ADVENTURES – Chapter 9 – The woods 

Now, my human’s, as you have guessed by now, need a lot of looking after. It’s not always easy you know. 

Anyway, we have recently been down to one of their favourite places for a few days down in Galloway.  Whist we were there we went on all our usual walks.  This time though, the humans reached the normal fork in the road and decided to head right instead of left for a change….. what could go wrong they asked…. I’ve been out with them before, and I have a list!!  They never asked, so off we went. 

After an hour or so without consulting a map, they decided to stop and take stock.  By this time, they had no clue where they were! 

So, to add to my list of things that can go wrong on a walk with my humans is ‘if you go too far, you will have to cancel your dinner reservation.’ 

So, off we traipsed back, if they had tails, they would be between their legs.  Thankfully when they got back to the village, they were able to get a meal deal out of the local shop as they were too late for any food anywhere.  Lesson learned…. until the next time…. 

The moral of this tail is………..If you think you are lost, you probably are.  Take time to look at a map and change direction before it’s too late…. you might miss more than your dinner.  

LOOKING UP

Nowadays when walking through town, or on a bus, or a train you see so many people staring at their phones, looking through Facebook or whatever and the world trundles past them and they don’t even notice 

Do you ever take a minute to take in your surroundings? I mean, when we are looking at something famous, a landmark, or scenery, we can all step back and give it the full attention it deserves. But how many times do we do that on a daily basis, with the every day steps we take.   

Now, I am not advocating that we don’t watch where we put our feet, we need to be careful out there……but….. 

The reason for saying this is that Dundee has a whole selection of wonderful building dotted throughout the city centre and beyond, that we are in danger of passing by without seeing the full beauty of it. 

bove is a picture that I took of a church roof in Cologne when we were there in June.  It was a nice building tucked away behind some houses, but the real beauty was found in the roof as you will see from the picture.  This got me to be thinking about how often we stop to take a moment just to take it all in. 

Just take a moment….pause……have a look at your surroundings…..look up…. 

You may just be inspired 

God bless 

Your friend and minister 

Alan