Can you imagine a heaven without pets?
There is a very special place where beloved pets go
after they die. This is only a temporary location. But there are trees and
grass and lakes, and everything they love. Here they can play and eat and
sleep, even better than they did, before they died. Now, there are no aches or
worries or dangers of any kind to trouble or threaten them. The only joy
missing is their beloved human companion, you.
All health is restored completely, and all injuries
are healed. Dogs and cats play with each other like youngsters, and they do not
have time to feel lonely for you. They miss you, and with the special wisdom
that animals have, they trust that this condition will get better. And they
confidently wait as they frolic.
A wonderful day will come for each of them, when in
the middle of playing they will suddenly feel something is different. And all
their senses will be at the height of excitement and exuberance. They will
sniff the air and look off in the distance where they recognize that dearly
loved special presence. Then they will call out in elation, and with eyes
shining and tail going wild, tear off at a full gallop, almost flying over the
green grass.
Your expected arrival has been sensed, and now there
is nothing that can keep the two of you apart, ever again. As you run toward
each other the tears flow from your eyes. Your pet leaps into your arms, and
you cling together in jubilant reunion. The joyous kisses are all over your
face, and you kiss back, just as ecstatically. Your hands so lovingly caress
once more the beloved fur, the head and neck and body you knew so well. And you
look into each other’s loving eyes, and all those old, wonderful shared
feelings are back, again.
And then something will call the both of you on, to a
different field of warmth and nurture, where all the love you knew now comes to
fruition. With your pet, you leave that special waiting area, walk into the
main part of heaven, and begin a new existence there, together.
If you accept that pets can love us as much as we do
them, then the logic is clear and cannot be denied. If you believe that there
is a heaven for people, then they must be there, waiting for us, when we cross
over. Heaven is love, and pets always share that with us.
(Wallace Sife, Ph. D. The Loss of a Pet (Revised Edition,
1998) Ch. 16)
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