Whenever a puppy is born on earth, a guardian angel waits nearby to welcome the puppy into the world and take it under her Heavenly wings.
The guardian angel makes herself very small and snuggles in close to the soft, warm fur, telling her puppy how much it is loved and that it has come into the world for a special purpose. Even though the puppy's eyes are closed, it feels the fluttering wings by its heart and knows its guardian angel is there.
All puppies come into the world with unique gifts. As time passes and the puppy grows, the guardian angel helps her puppy to understand what makes it so very special. Whether they are destined to become fast runners, soulful singers or peaceful sleepers, each puppy is perfect and the angel loves it just the way it is.
The day comes when the puppy must go into the world and start
traveling down its own special path. Sometimes, the path leads to a loving home, where a family is waiting to take their new four-legged friend into their hearts. And the guardian angel is happy, knowing her dog will always have friends to play with, bones to chew on and someone to cuddle up next to at night.
Angels like to visit when their dogs are dreaming. You may have
seen a dog's paw moving while it is asleep. Perhaps it is on a high hill in a faraway place, dancing with its guardian angel. All dogs bring the gift of love to the world. In that way they are very much like angels. Dogs will share their love with anyone. They don't ask for anything in return. But if someone takes a moment to scratch a dog under its chin or tell a dog how special it is, you can be sure its guardian angel is smiling.
From time to time, when a certain person and a certain dog meet,
something happens that is just like magic! It is as if they have
known each other before. Each knows what the other is thinking and feeling. They will be together always. And the two with love, knowing their dog has found its forever person and the person has found its forever dog.
A forever person and their forever dog will share many experiences over a lifetime, like listening to favorite stories and taking vacations together. They will watch hundreds of sunsets from up on the hill. But the greatest gift these friends will share is knowing what is in the other's heart. Side by side, looking up at the sky on a starry night, a forever person and their forever dog will share all the secret hopes and dreams that are only told to a very best friend. A dog can never really be separated from its forever person. Neither time nor space can ever come between them. So when the dog comes to the end of its earthly life, and must go on ahead without its person beside them, the guardian angel becomes a loving bridge that connects the two friends for as long as the person remains on earth.
Sometimes dogs will cross the angel bridge and visit the earth while they are waiting for their forever person to join them. You can never be certain where they might turn up. You may feel four paws padding along next to you when you are in the park. Listen carefully, and you might hear a familiar voice joining in when you go holiday caroling.
So if you see the blanket rumple softly after you've curled up for an afternoon nap, it's every possible your forever dog has come back to visit and is napping beside you. Nothing brings your forever dog more joy than knowing you are happy, even if that means bringing a new dog companion into your life. Your
forever dog lovingly remembers the special place it had in your life on earth, and is delighted to know another dog will get to share all the love you have to offer. Your forever dog may even come back and help your new dog discover the best spots for burying bones and show them where to watch for your return at the end of the day. So don't be surprised to see your new dog racing through the house as if it's playing with an invisible friend......it probably is.
As the years go by, you and your dog may find yourselves going more slowly as you take your daily walks. The time may come when your dog leaves your side and crosses the bridge to be with your forever dog. In fact, there may be many animals who will share your life during the time you are here on earth.
One day, the angel bridge that your forever dog crossed so many
years earlier will appear to you. And with the happy heart of a person who is going home, you will cross the bridge and find yourself welcomed by all the animal friends you made when you were on earth.
In the middle of all that love, your forever dog will be waiting for you.
It will be like the day you found each other on earth. You will know you have been together before, and nothing will ever separate you again.
And the angels will be happy, knowing a forever person and their forever dog have found each other once more.
Pawprints in the Sand
One night I had a wondrous dream,
One set of footprints there were seen,
The footprints of my precious Lord,
While He carried me along the shore.
But then some stranger prints appeared,
So I asked, What were these prints for?
These prints are neither yours nor mine,
And Lord, they are in sets of four.
My child, He said in sober tones,
At one time you were so close to giving up, That I called on a little
dog to walk along.
And for awhile this was just what you needed.
Your pup filled your time with love and blessings,
He kept you so busy there was no time for fussing.
But then one day I had to call him home,
And you were heartbroken and all alone,
But the time you had together was never forgotten,
And even though it hurt to lose your little dog,
I knew you'd be better, for the love you had known.
Patty Potter from California
Angel Dogs
When dogs go to heaven, They don't need wings because God knows that dogs
love running best. He gives them fields. Fields and fields and fields. When a
dog first arrives in heaven, he just runs. Dog heaven has clear, wide lakes
filled with geese that honk and flap and tease. The dogs love this. They run
beside the water and bark and bark and God watches them from behind a tree
and smiles.
There are children. Of course. Angel children. God knows that dogs love
children more than anything else in the world, so he fills Dog Heaven with
plenty of them. There are children on bikes and children on sleds. There are
Children throwing red rubber balls and children pulling kites through the
clouds. The dogs are there, and the children love them dearly.
And, oh, the dog biscuits. Biscuits and biscuits as far as the eye can see.
God has a sense of humor, so He makes His biscuits in funny shapes for His
dogs. There are kitty-cat biscuits and squirrel biscuits. Ice-cream biscuits
and ham-sandwich biscuits. Every angel who passes by has a biscuit for a dog.
And, of course, all God's dogs sit when the angels say "sit." Every dog
becomes a good dog in Dog Heaven.
God turns clouds inside out to make fluffy beds for the dogs in Dog Heaven,
and when they are tired from running and barking and eating ham-sandwich
biscuits, the dogs find a cloud bed for sleeping. They turn around and around
in the cloud... until it feels just right, and then they curl up and they
sleep. God watches over each one of them. And there are no bad dreams.
There are dogs in Dog Heaven have belonged to somebody on Earth and, of
course, the dogs remember this. Heaven is full of memories. So sometimes an
angel will walk a dog back to Earth for a little visit and quietly,
invisibly, the dog will sniff about his old backyard, will investigate the
cat next door, will follow the child to school, will sit on the front porch
and wait for the mail. When he is satisfied that all is well, the dog will
return to Heaven with the angel. It is where dogs belong, near God who made
them.
The dogs in Dog Heaven who had no real homes on Earth are given one in
Heaven. The homes have yards and porches and there are couches to lie on and
tables to sit under while angels eat their dinners. There are special bowls
with the dogs' names on them. And each dog is petted and reminded how good he
is, all day long.
Dogs in Dog Heaven may stay as long as they like and this can mean forever.
They will be there when old friends show up. They will be there at the door.
Angel dogs.
The little dog arrived at the Rainbow Bridge, and a pack of dogs rushed up to greet him. He braced himself expecting a fight, but this was the first pack that wagged their tails and kissed him instead of attacking him. It was beautiful here, and everyone was nice to him. None of them had been born in a puppy mill, like he had, and used for dog-bait fighting and left to die in a shelter because he was a mix-breed battle-scarred cur and wasn't cute. They explained why they were waiting...for their humans who loved them." What is love?" he asked, and God let him go back to earth, and find out. Warm and dark, he squeezed in with the others and waited for the day to be born. Scared, he held back as long as he could, but finally got dragged out by his hind feet. Hands without fur held him gently and rubbed him dry and opened his mouth and guided him to a warm nipple with milk. He didn't get a good hold on it because one of his big fat brothers pushed him aside. The human hand moved the other puppy to another nipple and held his body, so he could drink. "Ahhh, that's better, "he thought, and drank until his jaws got tired and he curled up to sleep next to his warm hairy mother. "I remember this," he mused... " Too bad I'll have to grow up to be hit, left out in the cold and rain, and used for dog-bait fighting, and die as an unclaimed rescue dog. I remember what it's like, being a dog." he thought sadly. That night, he crawled up to his mother and tried to nurse, but he kept getting pushed off to the side. When they were full, the big brother and sisters got their bottoms cleaned and he finally latched on to a nipple, but the human hands weren't there to hold him up, and there wasn't any milk in any of the nipples anyway. He was weak and so tiny. It was even hard to stay upright, and he fell over on his back and couldn't get upright himself. So he began to cry, and suddenly the human hands were there, holding him up and putting a rubber thing in his mouth. It didn't taste or feel like mother, but it was warm and made the ache in his tummy go away. He was having trouble breathing ... His lungs weren't fully developed, because he had waited too long to join the others in the womb, as he took one last romp at the Rainbow Bridge. He could feel the heartbeat of the human, who had laid him on her chest and covered him with a soft cloth, keeping him warm, and soothing his bony body with gentle circling touches. He kept thinking of his new friends who had been so nice to him at the bridge, and he asked God if he could go back. God said "Yes, but not just yet. You wanted to experience love." So for several hours (seemed like days but it was dark and he couldn't tell what time it was), the human supplemented his feeding and let him experience the warmth of his mother's body and tongue, and the pile of warm soft littermates. He got weaker, and the human held him more often, leaving the littermates to sleep in a pile while he got caressed, kissed, and got to listen to the heartbeat which was strong and loving. Finally God came back and asked, "are you ready to come back to the Rainbow Bridge?" "Yes", he responded with a little sorrow, because the human didn't want to let him go, and was crying. He pushed the air out of his lungs and floated back to the Rainbow Bridge and looked back at the human, who was still crying and holding the limp body that he had borrowed for his trip."Thank you, God," he said. "Love is beautiful, and I will wait near the Bridge and let the human know, when she arrives, that I loved her, too." by Joy LaCaille --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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