Today I'll tell the story of my loveably anxious pup, Bailey, and the many lessons we can learn from a recent walk she and I took together.

Here are some resources I hope will help you to view your one beautiful life with the particular frame of a walk with your kind and faithful Companion:

1. Learning to Walk in the Dark, by Barbara Brown Taylor

2. Hinds Feet on High Places, by Hannah Hurnard

3. The Alchemist, by Paulo Coehlo

4. The Seven Storey Mountain, by Thomas Merton

5. Podcast: On Being episode with Padraig O Tuama - listen through the end for his beautiful poem, Morning Prayer

6. Podcast: That Sounds Fun with Annie F. Downs - hear her guest, Kevin Queen's miraculous story of how he was led by God step-by-step to a new vocation

7. Song: Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus, by Lauren Daigle

8. Song: You'll Never Walk Alone, by Marcus Mumford

9. Song: Abide With Me, by Audrey Assad

10. Song: When It Don't Come Easy, by Patty Griffin

11. Song: Keep on the Sunny Side, by Elizabeth Mitchell

12. I'm curious if you got this far and also, if you enjoy smiling: Song: Movin' Right Along, from Muppet Movie