Sometimes as Good as a Dog

Do not say that “It was the will of God.”

  Imagine what automatons are like:

no thought, no will, no emotions.  A good

  dog trained to help the blind can make

the decision not to cross the busy

street even if the master says to heel.

…

A robot just repeats repeats a task.

  A human can lovingly pat you on

the back, or choose to stab you in the back.

  God seems to prefer life to a machine.

So we are free to love, to choose the good,

and if sometimes we do…we can thank God.

– Steve Shoemaker, Urbana, IL Dec. 15, 2012