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MONDAY MORNING MOMENTS
Aug. 9, 1999 Vol. IV Number 30
In the 1980’s people shelled out thousands of dollars to own a pot-bellied pig, an exotic house pet imported from Vietnam. Their breeders claimed thee mini-pigs were quite smart and would grow to only forty pounds. Well, they were half right. The pigs were smart. but they had a tendency to grow to about 150 pounds and become quite aggressive.
What do people do with an unwanted pot-bellied pig? Fortunately, Dale Riffle came to the rescue. Someone had given Riffle one of thee pigs, and he fell in love with it. The pig, Rufus, never learned to use its litter box and developed this craving for carpets and wallpaper and drywall. Yet Riffle sold his suburban home and moved with Rufus to a five-acre farm in West Virginia. He started taking in the unwanted pigs, and before long, the guy was living in hog heaven.
There are currently 180 residents on his farm. According to an article in US News and World Report, they snooze on beds of pine shavings. They wallow in mud puddles. They soak in plastic swimming pools and listen to piped-in classical music. And they never need fear that one day they’ll become bacon or port chops. There’s actually a waiting list of unwanted pigs trying to get a hoof in the door at Riffle’s farm.
Dale Riffle told the reporter, “we’re all put on earth for some reason, and I guess pigs are my lot in life.” How could anybody in his right mind fall in love with pigs?
I’ll tell you something even more amazing. An infinite, perfectly holy, majestic, awesome God is passionately in love with insignificant, sinful, sometimes openly rebellious, frequently indifferent people. God loves people like you and me.
“Look at the Nations and watch - and be UTTERLY AMAZED. for I am going to do something in YOUR days that you would not believe even if you were told” Habakkuk 1:5
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