This is a Salaback Church podcast. Today we are continuing a message series called

transferring trust, and we've been looking over these last few weeks at the subject of trust.

We've been talking about how God has made us as humans to trust in him, that ultimately he's the only one worthy of our trust.

Now, when it comes to being trustworthy, we have a little bit of a challenge in our family

that we've been dealing with. We have three kids. We also have one family member who

thinks they're a child. And we've been having some struggles with this particular

individual. Her name is Mercy. Mercy in dog years is just over two. I'll show you a picture of

her here. But in human years, she's just over two, I should say. In dog years, she's a teenager.

And that presents a lot of problems. Because when she's with you, she's one thing.

When you're gone, she's another. Now, you might meet her. If you met Mercy, you'd think,

oh, this is an incredible dog. Like, she's unbelievable. Her behavior is wonderful. And she is.

She's a phenomenal dog until we're gone. And it happened for us around October last year at Halloween.

Our kids got a bunch of candy. Somebody left chocolate out. Now, we do know that chocolate

kills dogs, but apparently Mercy has resurrected from the dead a few times while we've been

gone. And she gets a hold of chocolate and she got a sweet tooth. So anytime we leave now,

if there's anything in the house that's left out, mercy goes for it. She goes for chocolate. She

goes for candy. She goes for chips. She goes for bread. Even recently, as this last week, we left her

in our bedroom because we can't leave her out anymore. And apparently she read that verse in the Bible that says,

Eat the Word of God.

Because she went after Stacey's journal with all these Bible verses.

She ate it.

She ate an ink pen.

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