ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS

I cannot tell you for sure that I know all of the answers,

but I can tell you for sure I know most of the questions.

Torture of Puppies

I had an incident occur today and I do not know what it means.

Perhaps if you have time you can review my story of what happened and give your opinion.

I paid the final payment on my farm land in Mexico today.

So it is official that my extended family now owns this land

(Special Mayan Land can only be owned by Mexicans and no foreign ownership).

I adopted two sons now and their families.

This land is for me and for them.

In celebration, we went to a very nice restaurant on the lake.

All were having a good time.

People are also allowed to swim in this lake.

While my friends were enjoying their lunch,

I noticed an about forty year old man in the lake water swimming.

He had in his hands a puppy; a very small one; as small as his hand.

He was forcing the puppy to swim.

It could not.

It kept going under the water for 5 seconds, then 10 seconds, and then 20 seconds.

He did this TEN TIMES.

Then his son brought him another one. And he repeated again, 5 seconds, 10 seconds, 20 seconds TEN TIMES! The people on the lake edge laughed at this as the puppies survived but were near drowning. Some kind girls swam up and asked him to stop. They knew this was a form of torture of small animals. He laughed. Then he gave both the near dead puppies to his son who took them to the shore and tossed them in a cardboard box and who put a wet towel over them.

This is all I could stand to watch.

So I went to the box and I removed the wet towel to see the puppies very near death.

I asked the man in the water if he would sell them to me.

He said he would sell one only.

How cruel is that? He asked me to choose which one of the two would be free and which one would die of torture? (If you saw the movie Sophie's Choice that was the exact same idea.)

I asked the man in perfect Spanish if he would please come out of the water to discuss business as I am RICH MAN and I have enough money.

In this moment I knew if he came close enough to me I would give him the same torture.

I would put this head under water for the count of 5, then 10, then 20,

and do the same TEN TIMES.

Then I thought of my Master.

My sweet Jesus.

And I turned and I walked away.

I walked to the restaurant and paid the bill and left a tip and left all my friends suddenly surprised why I was leaving without any explanation except I said, I must go right NOW.

I walked for about 2 miles before anyone stopped me.

Then my friends asked me to get in the car. Bless Them. And they took me home.

But I am still very sad because I did not steal the little puppies in the box when I had a chance to do this to save them, and I did not save them from further torture.

So did I love my enemy in the fact I did not kill the man

but I did not save the puppies or anything?

What do you think?

I know I did wrong because the puppies will die
but I am too weak to know what I could do better.

When I wanted to kill the man for torture of the puppies,
I could not think of what to do except NOT to hurt him by walking away.

Am I wrong?

I had only micro seconds to make a choice.

You have micro seconds to form an opinion!

Push

I try to push you,
but I cannot push you too far or too fast.

I push you far enough so you are able realize your potential.
I push you fast enough so you find some happiness right away.

I need to push you. Because you resist.
Because you cannot push yourself.
If I do not do this, who will do this?

And then if I push you in the correct way,
you go very fast in a wonderful direction.

Otherwise you fall down and no one is there to push you.