My pup has taken to staring at the phone. Unfortunately I cannot communicate to him that ‘a watched phone will not ring.’

I first noticed it the other day. I was reading and I heard whining and when I looked up there he was, staring at the phone. I figured out why.

When the phone rings in the morning or on these cold days middle of the morning, my friend has checked the temperature and figures we’re good to go with walking the boys. He’s longing to run and in his little doggy brain this will help.

We all have longings. Sadly, they are often displaced. When we try to fill up what we see as a need, we can and sometimes do indulge in something that, in the end, brings us sorrow.

As C.S. Lewis says, “We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea.” Only God satisfies.