{"id":880,"date":"2009-11-01T16:41:10","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T21:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=880"},"modified":"2009-11-01T16:41:10","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T21:41:10","slug":"today-the-gathering-when-a-bulldog-speaks-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/today-the-gathering-when-a-bulldog-speaks-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"Today @ The Gathering: When a Bulldog Speaks, Listen!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/strong>\"\"Many years ago I lived in Huntsville, Alabama and while there, I worked for an engineering firm that contracted out to NASA.\u00a0 In the first days of my employment I met one of the most unique people I\u2019ve every met.\u00a0 His name was \u201cBulldog.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bulldog was a 93 year-old janitor, which means he was born in the 1800\u2019s in the South.\u00a0 And you can only imagine what atrocities he had seen.<\/p>\n

He told stories about his grandfather being lynched when he was just a small boy; about his father being beaten and being refused admittance to the hospital just because of the color of his skin.\u00a0 Bulldog himself walked with a limp from a beating he had received when he was just a teenager.<\/p>\n

Bulldog was illiterate, poor, 93 years old and worked as a janitor. Yet he was the happiest, most vibrant and radiant person I\u2019d ever met.\u00a0 And to this day, I am hard-pressed to think of anyone who makes me smile more when I think of them than Bulldog did.<\/p>\n

When I met Bulldog I was a young Christian.\u00a0 And I found, in Bulldog, a mature one.\u00a0 What I saw in him that day, that I\u2019ve been trying to learn all these years, is to trust God with everything, all the time, without exception, no matter what the atrocity or adversity.<\/p>\n

So today @ The Gathering<\/a> we talked about what Bulldog taught me.\u00a0 Bulldog always quoted bits and pieces of Psalm 37.\u00a0 He would say the Good Lord taught not to fret, to trust and delight; to commit and be still.\u00a0 Out of this pattern of trust came what I call, The Bulldog Principle<\/strong>.\u00a0 There are three parts to it. <\/strong><\/p>\n

1. I will never sour. <\/strong> Bulldog had every reason to be bitter at the world, but he wasn\u2019t.\u00a0 He was happy.\u00a0 Why?<\/p>\n