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    Out of today's email

    A letter from the Post Office
    Someone in the Postal Service needs to be rewarded
    A letter from the Post Office... This is absolutely the best!!
    We don't know who replied, but there is a beautiful soul working in the dead letter department 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 am sending a picture of her, so when you see her, you will know that she is my dog.
    I really miss her.
    Love, Meredith
    We put the letter in an envelope with a picture of Abbey & 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 & 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
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    I just thought of it as a nice sentiment and passed it on.
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
    “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis

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    It's hard to believe but, something flew into my eye as I was reading her letter. A bit of moisture must have flushed it out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Independent Voter View Post
    It's hard to believe but, something flew into my eye as I was reading her letter. A bit of moisture must have flushed it out.
    Strangely enough, the same thing happened to me...Some pet dander left over from my now departed puppies probably triggered an old allergy......Ben
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