Posted on 10/22/2010 6:50:32 AM PDT by marshmallow
The video was meant to simply make some Facebook friends, and his mother in particular, smile.
Steven Boyd, 39, had taught his dog Djaingo how to "say grace," and one late September morning, camera in hand, he coaxed the sleepy pup out to the living room and into prayer.
Front paws on Boyd's thigh, head bowed, man and dog offered up these words:
Thank you for allowing us to be the man and puppy you've allowed us to be. Father, thank you for our friends and family, their prayers and support and energy that they give us… Father, I do ask a special prayer that you help me to not chase the neighbor's cat and to listen to my master whenever he asks me to do anything.
What began as a post on Boyd's Facebook page was passed on and shared. It's popped up all over YouTube, appeared on numerous other sites, and it even got play on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno."
But the story behind Djaingo the praying dog is deeper than it is cute.
Boyd found his way to the dog just when they needed each other most.
The man was sick - had been for more than a year and a half - when he strolled into an animal shelter looking for a temporary escape. It was September 10, 2003, the day before the second anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and the memories of that day weighed heavily on him.
For 12 years, Boyd says, he served in the U.S. Army. He says he was, among other things, a sniper, a paratrooper and, subsequently, a counter narcotics operator. He'd been fearless professionally and personally. He'd jumped out of planes, rappelled down cliffs and mountain biked his way across dangerous terrains.
Now, though, he was losing...........
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Prayer puppy ping
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That has been around the Net and everyone loves it.
I LOVE that story. Thanks.
Monroe says that for months Rambler has been sitting in a corner and listening to her home Bible study group discuss the Bible. Then, last week during the prayer time, Rambler ran into their midst, lay down on the floor and looked up at them with "a look of pure regret and sadness," Monroe says. "It was as sincere as anything I’ve seen among humans at the altar at church."The group laid hands on Rambler and prayed that God would make him a "born-again creature." Rambler then leapt up and pranced around the living room.
The video is wonderful, but the story is fabulous. It emphasizes that when we are down, to get up we need to go and serve. This youngman knew that instinctively as a Christian, so he went to walk dogs as a service. God smiled through Djaingo, telling this man that he was approved. ‘As you have done this to the least of mine, you’ve done it unto me.’
Lucky pup. Smart, too.
St. Francis, for one...
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