I know what you are going through. We lost a 6 year old Boxer last November to cancer. Not easy to do.
This helped too.
Why did God make dogs?
I
don't think it was accidental, so why do you
suppose "hounds" are
around?
Recently, I watched an elderly woman trying to
recover
from a stroke. Her brain was damaged, and
her arm was weak, so her therapist
brought, of all
things, a dog to help out. Instead of
completing
monotonous drills, the elderly patient threw a
bright red
Frisbee across the room, and the dog
bounced over, picked it up, and brought
it back, his
eyes begging, "Throw it again, please!" And she
did, over
and over and over, forgetting that she was
actually working quite hard.
What possessed God to
make dogs anyway?
Certainly there are
exceptions, and certainly people
can breed dogs to bring out the worst in
them, but
in general, there is nothing more selfless, loving
or patient
than a dog. Mistreat it and it comes
back to you anyway. Ignore it and it
never gives up
hope that you will be its friend again. Make it
wait
days to go play, and it will still be ready.
It offers you friendship and
companionship and in
return asks only for food, water and an occasional
scratch
behind the ears.
Why would God bother to make such a
creature? I
suppose that if dogs were like people they would
eventually
give up on us. But they never do. A
dog's love is almost impossible to
destroy, because
it's not a love you earn; it's simply a love you
are
given.
In other words, dogs LOVE unconditionally.
Unconditional
love; unending patience; faithfulness
to the very end.
Do you
suppose, just perhaps, that God made dogs
to show us a little something
about Himself? Do you
think maybe "man's best friend" is really
pointing
us to the one who is truly our very best friend?
You could
learn a lot from a dog. Dog spelled
backward is ___________????
(GOD)