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~ A Dog
For Jesus ~
I wish someone had given Jesus a dog
As loyal and loving as mine
To sleep by His manger and gaze in His eyes
And adore Him for being divine.
As our Lord grew to manhood His faithful dog
Would have followed Him all through the day
While He preached to the crowds and made the sick well
And knelt in the garden to pray.
It is sad to remember that Christ went away
To face death alone and apart
With no
tender dog following close behind
To comfort its Master's
Heart.
And when Jesus rose on that Easter morn
How
happy He would have been
As His dog kissed His hands and barked its
delight
For The One who died for all men.
Well, the Lord has a dog now, I just sent Him mine
the old pal so dear to me
And I smile through
my tears on this first day alone
Knowing they're
in eternity.
Day after day, the whole day through
Wherever
my road inclined
Four feet said, "I am coming with you!"
And trotted along behind.
~ Rudyard Kipling ~
A Dog's Purpose - from a 4 year old
Being a veterinarian, I was called to examine a ten year
old Irish wolfhound named Belker.
The dog's owners, Ron, his wife Lisa and their little boy, Shane, were all very
attached to Belker and they were hoping for a miracle.
I examined Belker and found he was dying of cancer. I
told the family we couldn't do anything for Belker, and offered to perform the euthanasia procedure for the old dog in their
home.
As we made arrangements, Ron and Lisa told me they thought it would be good for the four-year-old Shane to observe
the procedure. They felt as though Shane might learn something from the experience.
The next day, I felt the familiar
catch in my throat as Belker's family surrounded him. Shane seemed so calm, petting the old dog for the last time, that I
wondered if he understood what was going on.
Within a few minutes, Belker slipped peacefully away.
The little
boy seemed to accept Belker's transition without any difficulty or confusion.
We sat together for a while after Belker's
death, wondering aloud about the sad fact that animal lives are shorter than human lives. Shane, who had been listening quietly,
piped up, "I know why."
Startled, we all turned to him. What came out of his mouth next stunned me. I'd never
heard a more comforting explanation.
He said, "People are born so that they can learn how to live a good life -- like
loving everybody all the time and being nice, right?" The four-year-old continued, "Well, dogs already know how to do
that, so they don't have to stay as long."
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly.
Leave the rest to God.
One of Us
If God had a name
What would it be?
And would you call it to his face
If you were faced with him
In
all his glory
What would you ask
If you had just one question?
Yeah yeah God is great
Yeah yeah God is good
Yeah
yeah yeah yeah yeah
What if God was one of us?
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying
to make his way home
If God had a face
What would it look like?
And would you want to see
If seeing meant
that you would have to believe
In things like heaven and in Jesus and the saints and all the prophets
And yeah yeah
God is great
Yeah yeah God is good
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
What if God was one of us?
Just a slob like one
of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home
Trying to make his way home
Back up to heaven
all alone
Nobody callin' on the phone
'cept for the Pope maybe in Rome
Yeah yeah God is great
Yeah yeah
God is good
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
What if God was one of us?
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger
on the bus
Trying to make his way home
Just trying to make his way home
Like a holy rollin' stone
Back up
to heaven all alone
Just trying to make his way home
Nobody callin' on the phone
'cept for the Pope maybe in
Rome...
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