THE DOG I DIDN'T WANT
Memoirs and a Biblical Look at the Death of Our Pets
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AS THE YEARS QUICKLY SLIP AWAY-EITHER BECAUSE OF AN UNRESOLVED SQUABBLE, BAD BLOOD, OR INCOMPATIBILITY, OUR PETS OFTEN END UP KNOWING US MUCH BETTER THAN DO MANY OF OUR HUMAN RELATIVES, OR FRIENDS. OUR ANIMAL COMPANIONS REMAIN UNCONCERNED ABOUT THE PETTY GOINGS-ON OF US HUMANS-THOSE OF US WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THEIR SUPERIORS. OUR PETS JUST LOVE, FORGIVE AND ACCEPT US THE WAY WE ARE...AND IN SO DOING, THEY BECOME PART OF OUR REAL FAMILY. OUR DOG ABBEE HAD BEEN AN IMPORTANT AND LOVING MEMBER OF OUR FAMILY. BUT ABBEE HADN'T BEEN A HUMAN. IT WAS BAD ENOUGH THAT SHE WAS DEAD, BUT WORSE YET WERE THE RESURFACING QUESTIONS OF MY YOUTH. WHILE LANGUISHING IN SORROW OVER THE DEATH OF OUR ABBEE, I WAS BEING CONSUMED BY YET SOMETHING ELSE. SOMETHING ELSE EVEN MORE UNSETTLING. WAS ABBEE TOO ONLY AGAIN RETURN TO THE EARTH, AND BECOME...AND REMAIN...NOTHING MORE THAN DUST?
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UNTIL ABBEE CAME INTO MY LIFE, I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND HOW WE COULD LOVE OUR ANIMALS SO MUCH; THAT IN FACT, THEY BECOME PART OF OUR FAMILY.
THE FIRST PART OF THIS BOOK IS DEVOTED TO RELIVING OUR FAMILY'S LIFE WITH ABBEE... AND HOW A DOG THAT I INITIALLY WANTED NO PART OF, SOON WORKED HER WAY INTO MY HEART AND BECAME FOR ME, AS THOUGH SHE WERE MY FOUR-LEGGED DAUGHTER.
ABBEE'S DEATH BROUGHT US GREAT SORROW. IT ALSO REMINDED ME ABOUT A MOST PERPLEXING BIBLICAL QUESTION-SOMETHING WHICH PROVED TO BE EVEN MORE UNSETTLING THAN HER DEATH.
ORIGINALLY WRITTEN IN MY ATTEMPT TO FIND SOME MEASURE OF PEACE; THE SECOND PART OF THIS BOOK IS DEVOTED TO THE PRAYERFUL HOPING... THAT THROUGH GOD, THE DIVINE CREATOR OF ALL; THE ANIMALS WE'VE EACH LOVED DURING OUR EARTHLY LIFE; MAY BE GRANTED ENTRY, AND BE INCLUDED WITH US FOR ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN.