By Dutch Sheets

CBN.com – A few years ago I was given a double-billed cap with one bill pointing to the left, the other to the right. The words on the front of the cap, “I’m the leader, which way did they go?” are intended to prompt the obvious question, “Who, really, is in charge?” I loved the humor in spite of the not-so-subtle and obviously asinine aspersion it cast on my leadership skills.

That question in one form or another is asked throughout the world millions of times a day. I recall the day our dog, Mercedes–she’s a Boxer, so ugly she needed a classy name–tried to assert her dominance over me. She was young, and the two of us were in a season of trying to establish who would rule our house. I was lying on the floor watching a football game, and she, very ceremoniously I might add, sauntered over and sat right on my chest. She then stuck her chest out, head up, and looked disdainfully at me out of the corner of her eye, glancing proudly at everyone else in the room. Easy to interpret: I’m in charge here; you will submit to me. (Maybe it was because I was wearing the cap.) …

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