Friday, August 17, 2012

MY WORD FOR AUGUST 17 IS HELPLESS!


My word for August 17th is HELPLESS

Dr. Henkel told Anna that you can very seldom save baby bunnies from the wild.  She knew from the beginning that they probably wouldn’t make it.  Baby bunny number 1 “Princella” didn’t last very long, but Bruno has hung in there for three weeks now.  He was the funniest little thing.  I would give him squash and he would jerk it out of my hand and run away and eat it.  This morning I woke up to do my usually routine, which now included visiting with Bruno, only to find him lifeless in his cage.  I began to talk to him and he raised his head and twitched his ears.  So now Anna and I sit here watching baby bunny finish this life.  We are helpless.  Anna is holding him, rubbing him, hoping to put life back into his little body, but it isn’t working.  Like Anna said, “the outside of his body has just quit, and the inside is trying to.”  At this very moment we just watched Bruno take his last breath of life.

There are over one hundred animals in the pages of the Bible.  We can assume that God loved animals, but then again God loves everything.  God cares for everything, we should care for everything just as God does.  For everything there is a beginning and an end, life and death.  Just like the death of a human, an animal is very similar. It’s body gradually shuts down and it takes its last breath.  No where can there be found whether an animal makes its final journey to that of heaven.  However in one article I read, a woman’s favorite dog had died.  She was very worried whether or not her dog would meet her in heaven.  The author stated we don’t actually know, however if it makes us feel better to think that our pets will be there waiting for us, we should think that.  

I will continue to think that when we arrive in heaven it is a wonderful garden full of animals running around in a colorful array of plants.  When I think of this place of wonder I think of peace.   One day in the future we will see baby bunny Bruno again.

Job 12:7-10 
“But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you. Speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish of the sea tell you. Every one of these knows that the hand of the Lord has done this. The life of every creature and the breath of all people are in God’s hand.” (NCV)

Dear Lord thank you for giving us special animals.  Many animals bring us comfort and joy.  We know with everything death will come, maybe not when we want it to, but it is your timing not ours.  We will continue to care for all things bright and beautiful that You created for this earth.  Thank You for allowing such  small little animals to bring us joy.  

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