Worthless No More

[258 words] I read a story recently about an amazing dog. He’s been trained to sniff out the unique chemical compounds found in electronic items like memory cards, flash drives, and other storage media that might have criminal evidence on them. He’s only 18 months old, but this was the second time he’d been adopted from the pound. The first owners returned him because he was “untrainable.” This untrainable dog went through intense training and was sold to a Narcotics Strike Force for $10,000. What made the difference? What caused the shift from worthless to valuable? He got a new master. In the right hands, the dog’s true value and potential were realized. You may have been called worthless by others. You may think of yourself as worthless. But no one is worthless when they’re adopted by the Father. When we’re in his hands, we have a future. When we’re…