Sharing a favorite

I've been going through some old document files, looking for something that should be there but darned if I know what I've done with it! However, I did run across something I had pasted into a word document long ago when I was doing research for an editorial. I do not recall the author, just that I liked it enough to save it. Here's to enjoying it all over again.

Do Animals go to Heaven?

Yes - they do!

Why do I know that? ... let me give you some food for thought.

In the Bible it tells how God will come back on a white horse. If there are no animals in Heaven, where will he get the horse?

It also says the Lamb will lie down beside the Lion. No animals in Heaven?

Psalm 50:10: For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowl of the mountains; and the wild beasts of the field are mine.

When God had made the earth and sky,

The flowers and the trees.

He then made all the animals,

The fish, the birds and the bees.

And when at last He'd finished,

Not one was quite the same.

He said, "I'll walk this world of mine,

And give each one a name."

And so he traveled far and wide

And everywhere He went,

A little creature followed him

Until it's strength was spent.

When all were named upon the earth

And in the sky and sea,

The little creature said, "Dear Lord,

There's not one left for me."

Kindly the Father said to him,

"I've left you to the end.

I've turned my own name back to front

And called you dog, my friend."

There is an Indian legend which says when a human dies there is a bridge they must cross to enter into heaven. At the head of that bridge waits every animal that human encountered during their lifetime. The animals, based upon what they know of this person, decide which humans may cross the bridge.... and which are turned away.

"Heaven is the place of final and complete happiness God has prepared for us - and if animals are necessary to make us happy in heaven, then you can be sure God will have them there." --Rev. Billy Graham