(I received this e-mail today…author and photographer unknown)
There’s a beautiful soul…
Working in the dead letter department of the Post Office…
who understands…
LOVE….
Our 14-year-old dog, Abbey…
Died last month…
The day after she passed away…
My 4-year-old daughter Meredith…
Was crying and talking about how much she missed Abbey…
She asked if we could write a letter to God…
So that when Abbey got to Heaven…
God would recognize her…
I told her that I thought that we could…
So she dictated these words:
Dear God…
Will you please take care of my dog?
Abbey died yesterday…
And is with You in Heaven…
I miss her very much…
I’m happy that you let me have her as my dog…
Even though she got sick…
I hope you will play with her…
She likes to swim and play with balls…
I’m sending a picture of her…
So when You see her…
You will know that she’s my dog…
I really miss her…
Love, Meredith
We put the letter in an envelope…
With a picture of Abbey and Meredith…
Addressed it to God/Heaven…
We put our return address on it…
Meredith pasted several stamps on the front of the envelope…
Because she said it would take lots of stamps to get the letter…
All the way to Heaven…
That afternoon, she dropped it into the letter box at the post office…
A few days later, she asked if God had gotten the letter yet…
I told her that I thought He had…
Yesterday, there was a package wrapped in gold paper on our front porch…
Addressed, “To Meredith” in an unfamiliar hand…
Meredith opened it…
Inside was a book by Mr. Rogers called, When a Pet Dies…
Taped to the inside front cover was the letter we had written to God…
In its opened envelope…
On the opposite page was the picture of Abbey and Meredith…
And this note:
Dear Meredith…
Abbey arrived safely in Heaven…
Having the picture was a big help…
And I recognized her right away…
Abbey isn’t sick anymore…
Her spirit is here with me…
Just like it stays in your heart…
Abbey loved being your dog…
Since we don’t need our bodies in Heaven…
I don’t have any pockets to keep your picture in…
So I’m sending it back to you…
In this little book for you to keep…
And have something to remember Abbey by…
Thank you for the beautiful letter…
And thank your mother for helping you write it…
And sending it to me…
What a wonderful mother you have…
I picked her especially for you…
I send My blessings every day…
And remember that I love you very much…
By the way, I’m easy to find…
I am wherever there is LOVE!!
Love,
God
I’d love to write a letter myself to God about the loved ones I’m missing!!
Romans 8:37-39
“No,
in all these things
we are more than conquerors
through Him who loved us.
For I am convinced that neither death nor life,
neither angels nor demons,
neither the present nor the future,
nor any powers,
neither height nor depth,
nor anything else in all creation,
will be able to separate us
from the love of God
that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
1 John 3:1
“See what great love the Father has lavished on us,
that we should be called children of God!
And that is what we are!
The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.”
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