Show hospitality to one another without grumbling.—1 Peter 4:9 (ESV)

I was running late to an appointment when the car in front of me slowed down. What now? I thought. Ahead, a bright orange blob was in the middle of the road. Traffic came to a standstill. The blob approached, and I was able to make out what it was—a tall, lean dog. A greyhound mix, it had an orange coat that had come undone and was now flopping like a cape in the wind. The dog went to each car, weaving from side to side on the double yellow line. Car after car inched by. 

Ahead I could see the dog nudge a pickup truck in the opposite lane. The driver rolled down his window and yelled, “Get out of the road!” The car right in front of me put on its turn signal and moved to the shoulder. Then its driver’s door opened and a woman got out. The dog ran to her. She checked its collar, opened her backseat door, and the dog jumped right in. 

The woman was holding her phone as I was about to pass. “Thank you!” I said. “Thank you for being such a good human!” She held up her free hand and waved me forward, shrugging as if to say it was nothing. But I knew I had just witnessed something truly angelic.