Proof The Bible Is True

My wife and I adopted a Chihuahua with a bright white spot on her back, whom we named Nuala (pronounced noo-luh, short for Fionnula, an Irish name meaning “white shoulder”).

In addition to the white spot, Nuala has another unusual marking—or pair of them, to be exact: two symmetrical black streaks just above her shoulder blades.

Nuala’s a young dog, and her coat is still changing. The longer she stays with us, the more pronounced the marks are becoming. “They look a lot,” my wife pointed out recently, “like wings.”

Nuala may be the first dog I’ve ever had with visible wings, but as every dog owner knows, there’s something angelic about all canines. Like angels, dogs watch out for us with a love that is completely unqualified. Speaking metaphysically, they do so from a different direction, of course.

The traditional Christian view sees animal creation as directly below the human, just as the angelic level is directly above it. But the devotion dogs show us has a touch of the divine about it all the same.

So much so that sometimes, in the course of the long, rich history of the human-dog relationship, those traditional categories get blurred, and it becomes hard to say whether one is talking about a dog, an angel or both.

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