This is Scout’s tail…. I know it looks like every other dog’s tail, but it’s not! It’s special, just like she is. You might not be able to tell by the picture, but her tail is black at the end – it looks like someone dipped her tail in ink.

She is very smart- I’m teaching her how to chase and play with the kittens, and how to get under the truck when you don’t want Mom to catch you.  I’m also teaching her how to jump on the sofa so we can take our naps; it’s so much more comfortable than the floor. The most important thing I’m teaching her, though, is that Jesus loves everybody, even little dogs like us.  I love Him too, so I want to do what He wants me to.

Mom says she is very proud of us, and she calls us her Thunder Girls –  she says some of Jesus’ friends were called “Sons of Thunder” because of their fiery tempers; she says we’re going to work for Jesus too, but we’re going to temper our “thunder” with love and grace.

Mark 3:13 And he went up on the mountain and called to him those whom he desired, and they came to him. 14 And he appointed twelve (whom he also named apostles) so that they might be with him and he might send them out to preach 15 and have authority to cast out demons. 16 He appointed the twelve: Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter); 17 James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James (to whom he gave the name Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder); 18 Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Zealot, 19 and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.