We are all broken

Our Great Pyrenees are great dogs. I bought them to help protect the house. However, being true to their breed, they love to go scouting about and often roam. This past spring I decided to get a German Shepherd to do the task the Pyrenees seemed to be uninterested in. She is a beautiful black and tan German Shepherd. We named her Martha. She was growing and turning into a beautiful dog. One day my son came to the house, and as any puppy will do, Martha got too close to the truck. Her left rear foot got run over. From the injury it looked like her foot got stuck under the tire, and she tried to pull her foot out. The injury to her foot was so severe it de-gloved her foot. Not only was her foot damaged, but her hip was broken. After a trip to the vet, she spent the night to wait until surgery the next day. After I received a call with a quote for the 2 surgeries (one for the foot and one later for the hip), I told the vet I probably just needed to put her down. I was devastated. I'd never made a decision to put a dog to sleep before, but the expenses were enormous to save the leg. The tech on the phone, giving me the quote, asked me to consider amputating the leg. She said many dogs do just fine with 3 legs. I told her I would think about it. After hanging up a thought kept running thru my head 'we are all broken in some way or another'.  'We are all broken in some way or another' just kept playing in my mind, and after one more phone call I decided to have Martha's leg amputated. Even now when I see Martha, or someone comments about her having 3 legs, I keep thinking 'we are all broken in some way or another'. She was a dog worth saving, and we are people worth saving (even broken). Christ is the source of fixing our brokenness.
Martha is a great dog. Her registered name is 'Mighty Martha'. She truly is a treasure, even broken. I took my grandson to Bentonville, AR to Amazeum (a children's museum). On the way up he went to sleep, and slept for about 2 hours. When he woke up, he asked if we were about there. I told him we were getting close. He said 'I'm missing Martha already'.