My dear friends,
Thank you all for your prayers and encouraging messages. It is with great sadness that I must report to you that we found Delilah’s remains on the highway behind their house just up the highway on Route 46Westbound by Exit to 5 th Street in Palisades Park.
We will be burying her in our back yard, inside the fenced dog run where we planted seven pine trees; where she spent five years with us, and another four years previously with us when we lived in North Bergen. She was Booboo’s dog, but really she was our dog too. We will miss her greatly. But Vivian was praying for closure, that we would know; and we know now where Delilah is.
The day she got lost, our Yorkshire Terrier, Littlez was in my bedroom, and at around 2:00PM he started barking. This was around the time Delilah escaped. She died instantly. We have closure now. Thank you for your prayers for our family.
Thank you friends for all of your words of comfort and inspiration at this time. I guess those of us who have pets and who’ve had pets really understand what it’s like to lose one. Our pets are parts of our family. They play with us, they sleep alongside us, they go where we go, they live in our homes with us as part of our families. They become a part of us. They become a part of our lives. They share with us some of our most treasured moments, and only a pet owner really knows what that’s like.
So when we lose one of them, we’re losing a cherished member of our family. We never get over it; we learn as we do when we lose a member of our family, to go on, and look forward to a day when we will be reunited with our pets (not doctrine, just a thought). My wife made a very good point to me yesterday; actually two very good points.
She said, “If there are no animals in heaven, then how is it that Jesus the Messiah is returning from heaven riding on a white horse? Where does the horse come from? And if G-d made the animals in the garden to keep man company, and He saw that it was good, will He not bring good things to pass when He restores the heavens and the earth?”
I would like to add to this that the Scriptures do tell us specifically how things will be in a restored universe. It is in the Hebrew Bible – the Tanakh – where Isaiah prophesies the following startling statement:
Isaiah 11
New American Standard Bible (NASB)
Righteous Reign of the Branch
Then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse,
And a branch from his roots will bear fruit.
The Spirit of the Lord will rest on Him,
The spirit of wisdom and understanding,
The spirit of counsel and strength,
The spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.
And He will delight in the fear of the Lord,
And He will not judge by what His eyes see,
Nor make a decision by what His ears hear;
But with righteousness He will judge the poor,
And decide with fairness for the afflicted of the earth;
And He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth,
And with the breath of His lips He will slay the wicked.
Also righteousness will be the belt about His loins,
And faithfulness the belt about His waist.
And the wolf will dwell with the lamb,
And the leopard will lie down with the young goat,
And the calf and the young lion and the fatling together;
And a little boy will lead them.
Also the cow and the bear will graze,
Their young will lie down together,
And the lion will eat straw like the ox.
The nursing child will play by the hole of the cobra,
And the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.
They will not hurt or destroy in all My holy mountain,
For the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord
As the waters cover the sea.
Then in that day
The nations will resort to the root of Jesse,
Who will stand as a signal for the peoples;
And His resting place will be glorious.
The Restored Remnant
Then it will happen on that day that the Lord
Will again recover the second time with His hand
The remnant of His people, who will remain,
From Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath,
And from the islands of the sea.
And He will lift up a standard for the nations
And assemble the banished ones of Israel,
And will gather the dispersed of Judah
From the four corners of the earth.
Then the jealousy of Ephraim will depart,
And those who harass Judah will be cut off;
Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah,
And Judah will not harass Ephraim.
They will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines on the west;
Together they will plunder the sons of the east;
They will possess Edom and Moab,
And the sons of Ammon will be subject to them.
And the Lord will utterly destroy
The tongue of the Sea of Egypt;
And He will wave His hand over the [i]River
With His scorching wind;
And He will strike it into seven streams
And make men walk over dry-shod.
And there will be a highway from Assyria
For the remnant of His people who will be left,
Just as there was for Israel
In the day that they came up out of the land of Egypt.
These animals will be like pets for the children of that era, and the earth and all creation will be restored to its proper state of being. Harmony and peace will dominate all creation, and everyone will live under Messiah’s perfect and just government when He sits once and for all before all nations on the seat of David His father. Thank you all for your comforting words, and thanks be to Our Maker for His promises.
You know, my daughter Julianne and my son-in-law Rafael, have a Beagle they named Samson. G-d will use him to comfort them now in their loss. He always provides a substitute and a means to heal from our hurts.
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Rainbow Bridge poem_______________________________________
Many of us know this-but for those who don't, it's a moving and touching poem that can help when we've lost a dear friend.
Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge. When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.
All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind. They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent. His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.
You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.
Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together....
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