A Priest told me something special one day while talking about the painful loss of my dog “Angel.”
What a sweet kind little being, a Samoyed who I didn’t name but had adopted her from a family with a hardship that gave her that name, and they wanted her to just get a great home which she did, with me. When I met the family and Angel she came to me almost immediately which they said was so unusual because she had been a timid and shy dog even when relatives or close friends came by to visit. When we met it was a sudden comfort and joy to know each other and Angel knew I was special to her just like I knew she was special to me, I loved her and wanted to do all I could to be kind and helpful to her. Those qualities rub off on each other because she was my best friend in reality and I was of course hers and more; even a savior of sorts in her spirit.
She hadn’t been spayed as the family that had owned her bought her from a breeder and they considered letting her have a litter of pups. Funny thing was I just met a couple several towns away from my home while doing my work one day who had a champion male Samoyed. Angel’s veterinarian said not to put her though all that, but I had a feeling it was what Angel wanted and needed. So she got to be a mom and had 6 beautiful fluffy white adorable puppies and from then on Angel showed what an Angel she really was! She basked in her motherhood and was so sweet and attentive to her babies, so much so it brought me to tears. I had worked as a photojournalist for a television station some years prior so I jumped into gear and documented the whole process of her transforming from being a timid little girl to being a wonderful matriarch of her 6 pups and me her best friend being just as attached. Funny too was she had 6 which was just the number of children my mother had so that with everything else about the whole story fit to a “T”.
Once several years later there was the time when I was checking the oil in my Jeep out in the garage while Angel was in the back with two of her daughters which I had decided to keep with her as she deserved family of her own kind that she loved so much; with her for life. They had been in the back yard a few minutes when Angel came up to my right leg and next to my boot ever so gently she was placing a new born squirrel that had fallen out of the dray up in one of the huge maple trees out there. Earlier that morning when still sleeping, after it being a very hot night, so I had the AC on and that fact with the windows all shut meant any typical outdoor sounds around my home were drowned out. Angel stirred a few times and I just told her we’ll get up in a while. She obviously could hear with her ultrasonic hearing ability the faint sounds of distress by the squirrels out there which I had no clue about. Hours later when she recovered the baby it was in shock from the heat and dehydration, so all I could do was give it comfort as it passed.
Angel was amazing all the years I had her with me, and when I told a priest how bad a time I was having with the loss and that I felt like I failed Angel and should have done more, perhaps I could have done something to keep her on earth longer, to which he said, “oh, you gave her such a bad life,” of course making me snap out of it knowing I had treated her like an Angel, then he went on and he told me that he went through a very identical trauma when his former dog died which the children of the parish had given to him as a Christmas gift and that her name was Angel also. My God, I thought; I had only just met and befriended this priest after the loss of a family member and hadn’t been to that church before. I was crying by now as I told him that a man at work who studied to be a priest but didn’t continue on to be ordained because God through an epiphany showed him a better direction his life should go to serve the Lord’s will. This man that I had known through work was very well read and highly intellectual and I thought he would give me something reassuring when I mentioned the loss of my Angel. I told him how I have to see her again someday hopefully in the next world; but to my shock he said the Bible doesn’t tell us that animals are going to heaven but, “we his children are if we are worthy.” I argued with him that for me to be happy in heaven or anywhere I have to see my Angel again and be her friend forever. This man told me I was being selfish and not letting go, but this all didn’t add up to me. When I told the priest all of this, as I wept like a child he looked straight into my eyes smiling and said, “Lawrence just remember this, with God anything is possible, so rejoice in that truth because it’s all in God’s hands and He wants you to be happy.”
So why did this past event about Angel come to mind immediately while reading your beautifully written thoughts and words; I think what the priest told me applies here too and all of what you speak to, because it is all in God’s hands, but most important here is “with God anything is possible,” he does love us beyond comprehension and that must entail filling us with all the best imagined ideas we can ever come up with, and Angel is certainly a great idea to include, so I’m sure God works it all out perfectly and we will rejoice beyond measure when we are in paradise with Jesus Christ our Lord, Savior and Redeemer.
Lawrence Morra
“What no eye has seen, no ear heard, or the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him.”
Zero Lift-Off 
Truth.:)
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Yes Indeed! I left out so much because it’s a very long story about Angel. Up to the point when I met the priest and had to talk about the loss of her in my life I had never realized one other little so obvious fact! Immediately after he told me how “with God anything is possible,” he continued smiling as he always was so positive and uplifting in all he did, including his being a 30 year paramedic with the fire department and always helping on some level; he said to me “what is dog spelled backwards?” I then said, oh my God father that’s it, I’m fine now and know that God just told me through you that everything is fine and to just have faith in Him! God does work in mysterious ways and like my Mom would sing to us when children, “He has the whole wide world in His hands!”
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I am so glad you found peace. She is a good Mom.
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You’re equally as good a Mom! God Bless You!
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Thank you very much! Mom also said many a time, “seek and you will find.” And of course with faith in our Lord and asking for His guidance in all things, even in my trying to come to terms with the loss of a sweet dog I had named Angel; He led me to the right person to speak to about it and I got my answer from God though the priest! Amen.
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My rescue Corgi – the one smelling the flowers? Came to me with the name ‘Angel’. 🙂 I love reading your Angel’s story; thank you for sharing!!
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Isn’t that amazing; ‘Angel’. 🙂 mine too and they really are like God made earthly companions angels; so good and full of love! I’ve said it and think I mean it! I would take a bullet for any of mine, like family, because I’m very protective and I love them so much; dogs and family!
Where I retrieved Penny from the lady director knew that about me which is why she went all out to get her a reprieve after hours; and that was never done before!
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Your post makes me wish I’d known Angel & cuddled her! Dogs can show gentleness that we wouldn’t even have thought of. & they certainly save us by choosing us. They give us a chance to be better human beings. Thank you for giving a loving home to Angel! She’s happy in the afterlife.
In my religion, an animal’s soul evolves into the human plane during the reincarnation process but, honestly, dogs are best left to being dogs as no soul can be as beautiful as theirs!
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“They give us a chance to be better human beings.” Ordinary Girl you are precisely correct!!!
I just left a comment attesting to this Truth you mention here for your previous comment and it is unanimous we see this is so true! I must add such beautiful photos of all the dogs with their caring human fathers such good men and dogs being peaceful!
I wish you could have known Angel and cuddled her she would love you without a doubt and I still miss her after many years but then I know its all in God’s hands and that love surpasses all human understanding so I am assured to see her again in the hereafter as long as I try my best to show my love to God! God is very happy to see us caring for these beautiful creatures He created for His purpose and plan! You’re so right on all points my Angel and the others all helped me to be saved and I see now they did so much more for me than I ever could for them, even though I provided like the Priest told me; a very good happy sheltered life!
Angel is doing all the good that God created her for and is happy, as the priest also told me something special when Angel’s daughter died suddenly at home after a surgery and I was heartbroken laying on my bed resting days later; when I suddenly saw as clear as this reality; I was talking to the other dogs and asking where is she, then I saw her sitting on my bed so stoic and glowing with contentment, relaxed as she never had been; I went to her and hugged her actually feeling her against my body, then I opened my eyes! I was healed and the priest told me I was given that vision from God because He and the dog were letting me know she is at peace!
There is so much we do not see and clearly understand but God has our best interests and the animals at heart! When Angel passed on a good woman one of the people that adopted one of her puppies called me out of the blue feeling compelled and she is a shy woman but felt she must! She offered me something talking on the telephone that helped me immensely!
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…
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