Thanks to all the readers who posted insightful comments about my latest emails.

Donna-

http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/apr2012/donnad424.htm

good call! I was convinced long ago that SOS 2:14 was prophetic.

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Frank -

good call! I had another friend mention Petra me. a place of refuge.

For sure, this was no man made complex. Man cannot make this.

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Carolyn -

yes and amen to your comments. God knows one of the most wonderful things about Heaven is the overwhelming peace and quiet! so unlike the world.

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DP -

thanks. I have no theological problem with my old dog being in Heaven. if God can make the universe, and God made my old dog in the first place, I don't see it as being too difficult to make her again. That was the sweetest dog God ever made. She was a rescue/shelter dog, we got as a puppy and she lived a long, and loved life. My kids adored her. She wasn't sick a day in her life hardly, until the end. God really blessed us.

When we knew we were coming to the end, about a month before we said goodbye, the Lord gave me a beautiful dream about her. In the dream, I was outside, and looked up into a beautiful sunny, summer blue sky with clouds. To my amazement, there was a cloud formation that looked clearly like a puppy, wearing a collar, with it's mouth open, and it's tongue hanging out. She was ever so slowly bounding up and down, and moving with the other clouds right to left.

It was really wonderful, and feel like the Lord was telling me that she was going to be alright. forever young, and free of old age maladies.

The day we said goodbye, the morning sky looked just that dream.