Father, thank you for loaning us some of your pets from time to time, as companions, and to take care of, and even to learn from. Thank you for your grace, and helping us grow in grace, even though sometimes it seems after the fact, I know I've often felt I've learned lessons too little too late, thank you, Father, for your long-suffering, and your goodness beyond measure, even though in my life, at least, so often undeserving.
Nevertheless, your grace abounds, your love never fails, your mercy is new every morning, and your promise to us becomes more precious in the light of some of the heartaches we go through. It helps us see just how fallen and far removed from your original design everything has become, including myself and the darkness of my own heart and mind.
Thank you for letting me see a little more now, how when our hearts grieve over these losses and separations, Lord, how much more, (and forgive me, but if I'm allowed to say), how much more must Your heart have grieved at the necessity of the first animal sacrifice, and of all the pain and suffering that has gone on in the world...in your creation...ever since.
Forgive me, Father, for the ways my sin and misdeeds have contributed to that, and even now I see how I need more cleansing, more forgiveness, more reconciliation, more understanding, more love in my life.
When I think of that shortest bible verse, and even the fact that by your grace you allowed us to read it and share it, you could have chosen to hide it from us, but you didn't, Father, you chose to show us.....Jesus wept.....
Lord, I feel so small right now, I don't know what to say or even the proper way to react.
I can't even imagine what all must have been going on in the mind and heart of the Perfect and only begotten Son of the living God, that He should weep. I feel almost blasphemous or heretical writing these things, Lord, and I am weeping too, trying to think and absorb it all.
I only wanted to say a prayer for ladybug and the other names I've seen here, posting words or adding likes, yet once again your grace has sent me where I wasn't expecting to go.
Lord, through these tears, I thank you, thank you for your awesome love.
Thank you for our pets and teaching us more about you and your love through them. Thank you that these trials we go through are temporary afflictions that give way to eternal rewards. Thank you for holding our hands when we need it, Jesus, and thank you for being our Rock and our Redeemer.
Thank you for putting eternity in view, and Christ the hope of glory in our hearts, when and where the reunions and newunions will abound with joy unspeakable!
Thank you that by your grace you've given me what I don't deserve,
and thank you that by your mercy, you haven't given me what I do!
Thank you, Lord, and to everyone else it's due, for allowing me to post this here, I have so much more to say, but need to find a better way, and time to say it.
I'm still praying for grace, mercy, and understanding.
And I'm praying, please, please, God our Father, please
bring comfort and healing and peace to ladybug and her
companion, and all of us here that need it...every one,
and replace the sorrow quickly with joy
and the reality of your victory and the good things to come.
Thank you, Father, for loving us so much, beyond measure,
in the wonderful name of Jesus, bless the Lord oh my soul. Amen!
