Our rough collie Savannah drinks a lot of water. She goes almost everywhere we do, so I keep a bottle of water in the car for her. Today when I left to walk her and get some groceries, I didn’t realize the bottle was empty. Usually that’s no problem. Here in Dunoon, Scotland, it rains almost every day, or every night, or at least part of every day. She loves to drink out of rain puddles, and rain puddles are plentiful. However, today—since it had been dry for two days in a row, there were no rain puddles.

I took the bottle we keep in the car into the store with me and went into the bathroom to fill it. The bathroom sink was tiny and the bottle would not fit into the sink. I couldn’t get the top under the facet—so I bent the bottle in half so it would fit. It didn’t hold much water with that bend in it, but it mostly fit into the sink so I was able to slowly unbend it, fill it, and bend it in another place until I finally got it nearly full.

When things in life seem impossible—bend the bottle.

“And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.” Matthew 21:22

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