Jul 5, 2026 · 27 min · 9 segments
Most fences aren't made of wood or wire. Some are invisible. This week Chuck reflects on the unseen boundaries the Lord places in our lives. Just as an invisible fence protects without always being…
Fences is the title of today's podcast, and I hope it'll make sense to you before we finish today.
As a way of kind of introducing this thought, I want to tell you a story.
Way back in the 90s, the late 1990s, it was my great joy to get a dog that we named Abby.
Abby was given to me by... a young man that at that time was in my Sunday school class.
And he's now, um, he's, he's now runs a business down in Oxford, near Oxford, Mississippi, um, training retrievers and sporting life kennels is the name of his.
Here's a shout out to Marty Roberts at sporting life kennels.
And it was a gift for Marty was kind of a gift.
Marty wanted to get rid of this dog because he had another dog that he was taking all of his time to train and care for, and he was a young man.
He adopted or sort of rescued this dog, and she really didn't have any bad problems, but he just couldn't keep her.
And at that time, I was Marty's Sunday school teacher, and he just wanted me to have her.
really bad.
And he talked me into it.
As I recall it, she had heartworms.
And so we were going to treat her for heartworms.
She wasn't affected badly by it, but heartworm treatments expensive.
And anyway, I took in Abby and Abby is arguably the best dog I've ever owned.
She was an amazing dog.
And so the stories I could tell about Abby are so many.
And I'm embarrassed to tell, I would be embarrassed to tell anybody how much money I think I'd write a check for if I could get Abby just like she was in her prime back right now today.
She was an unbelievably good person.
dog.
She was a great retriever.
She was super athletic.
She just understood what she was supposed to do.
Fences is the title of today's podcast, and I hope it'll make sense to you before we finish today.
As a way of kind of introducing this thought, I want to tell you a story.
Way back in the 90s, the late 1990s, it was my great joy to get a dog that we named Abby.
Abby was given to me by... a young man that at that time was in my Sunday school class.
And he's now, um, he's, he's now runs a business down in Oxford, near Oxford, Mississippi, um, training retrievers and sporting life kennels is the name of his.
Here's a shout out to Marty Roberts at sporting life kennels.
And it was a gift for Marty was kind of a gift.
Marty wanted to get rid of this dog because he had another dog that he was taking all of his time to train and care for, and he was a young man.
He adopted or sort of rescued this dog, and she really didn't have any bad problems, but he just couldn't keep her.
And at that time, I was Marty's Sunday school teacher, and he just wanted me to have her.
really bad.
And he talked me into it.
As I recall it, she had heartworms.
And so we were going to treat her for heartworms.
She wasn't affected badly by it, but heartworm treatments expensive.
And anyway, I took in Abby and Abby is arguably the best dog I've ever owned.
She was an amazing dog.
And so the stories I could tell about Abby are so many.
And I'm embarrassed to tell, I would be embarrassed to tell anybody how much money I think I'd write a check for if I could get Abby just like she was in her prime back right now today.
She was an unbelievably good person.
dog.
She was a great retriever.
She was super athletic.
She just understood what she was supposed to do.
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