Rich Dixon talks about one of his colleagues.

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Life would be better if I could trust God as much as my dog trusts me.

Rich’s Ride featured a (mostly) daily blog. I suppose I should have been offended when Monte’s weekly contribution was a popular attraction, but I grew accustomed to my role as part of Monte’s entourage.

Monte filters a lot of the junk that gets in the way of communication and relationships. Since we’re sharing the experience of this project, perhaps you’d like to hear his perspective.

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Hi. I’m Monte, Rich’s service dog, the good-looking one in all those photos. Rich said something about being “too busy” with some big project and asked me to write some blog posts.

Since I’m going to be conversing with you, I’ll let you in on a little secret, if you promise to keep it to yourself: Rich and Becky think I don’t understand their conversations. They’re wrong. I know exactly what they’re saying, though most of it makes no sense.

Here’s an example – I don’t understand how Rich can be “too busy.” I’m always busy. I’m busy eating, or playing, or sniffing, or getting my tummy rubbed. Lots of the time I’m busy sleeping. But whatever I’m doing, I’m totally into it. I don’t mess with past or future. I don’t plan or worry. I just do stuff, and I’m always all-in.

So Rich says he’s too busy, but I think he’s choosing to do other things. That’s okay, but he’d be better off to just say he’s making different choices. “Too busy” sounds like he has no choice.

Me? I’m always busy, but I never have too much to do.

Tomorrow when we go running, I’ll just run until I’m done. I won’t care how far or fast. If I’m tired, I’ll stop. Rich will be watching a little screen with a bunch of numbers, measuring how far and how long. And he’ll miss the interesting smells because he’s thinking about what’s next.

I guess that’s how you get too busy.

To be continued…