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RAINBOW BRIDGE

Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.

When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge.

There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together.

There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.

All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor; those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by.

The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.

They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance.  His bright eyes are intent; His eager body quivers.  Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.

You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again.  The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.

Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together......

Author unknown...

A DOGS PRAYER

Dear Lord........

 Please watch over our humans, they are so weak.  They have no claws or teeth, they can't run fast or fly away, neither can they burrow or build a nest in which to be safe.

 They smell bad, do strange things that aren't altogether intelligent, and have no real ability to communicate with us, although we are able to figure out what they want.

 Lord, grant US the ability to watch over our humans, care for them, cheer them when they are down, make them laugh, smile, and shower them with our love.

 We pray that we can bring a little joy into their otherwise mundane existence.

 Lord...please let them know that when we insist on getting attention, it is so we can check their emotional well being and boost their morale.

 When we pester them for different foods, toys, etc, its so they will learn to see us in ways they hadn't considered, bringing them closer and back into the fold...which they are part of but keep forgetting about.

 They expect us to know what they want even though sometimes they don't know what we want.

 Some of them really try and we know they love us but some of them are so dumb yet our love for them remains intensely unfaltering.

 Lord, when we die, please make sure to send us ahead to where ever our humans are going to be, so we can pave the way for them, vouch for them and be there for them when they too die....please allow us to continue proving the humans are worth the effort.

 You placed these humans in dominion over us, but you charged us with the task of caring for them and SHOWING them your love every one of them.

 God bless these mere mortal humans, they know not that we are their guardian angels sent in love to task them so that they may grow to be part of your plan.

 You and Us God...we'll bring them back into the fold...you and us.

-Author Unknown-

 

Little Dog Angel

High up in the courts of heaven today
A little dog angel waits;
With the other angels he will not play,
But he sits alone at the gates.
For I know my master will come, says he,
And when he comes he will call for me.

The other angels pass him by
As they hurry towards the throne,
And he watches them with a wistful eye
As he sits at the gates alone.
But I know if I just wait patiently
That someday my master will call for me.

And his master, down on the earth below,
As he sits in his easy chair,
Forgets sometimes, and whispers low
To the dog, who is not there.
And the little dog angel cocks his ears,
And dreams that his master's voice he hears.

And when at last his master waits
Outside in the dark and cold,
For the hand of death to open the door,
That leads to those courts of gold,
He will hear a sound through the gathering dark,
A little dog angel's bark.

- Author Unknown

 

 

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