Thread by @kstewskisAZ

#rainbowbridge As I sit here one year later, staring at this same spot, trying to reckon what exactly happened, and why it happened. I recall being told in college by one of my mentors, to “look for the gift” whenever we experience the pain of loss. 1/

#rainbowbridge that was in 1987. I’d already had my share of hard knocks with loss (who didn’t?), but it never seemed to end. Is that a bad thing? No, I no longer think it is.

#rainbowbridge just the night before I found myself in the ER with such elevated blood pressure, the nurses were surprised I wasn’t about to have a stroke. I had no symptoms. The next morning I left for about 30 min to fill a prescription until I could follow up w/ my doctor. 3/

#rainbowbridge when I got home, I found Rikki laying on the floor in front of the fan, like she always did. The big pile of lovable fur that she was. But she couldn’t move. Something terrible had happened. 4/

#rainbowbridge it all happened so quickly, she was too far gone. Within the hour, I was saying goodbye to her at the vet’s office, and about two hours later, I had to send Yogi to the bridge as well. This was completely unexpected and out of the blue. 5/

#rainbowbridge about an hour after Yogi took her last breaths, I had to come home to talk to my doctor, explaining to her that I was diagnosed with hypertension, and some of the factors causing it. I still hadn’t been able to pick up the prescribed medicine at that point. 6/

#rainbowbridge by the time I finished with the doctors call, and picked up the prescription, I went back to reckon why, in the veil of tears, of losing two of my most precious possessions, this had to happen. There’s a gift here somewhere. It’s bigger than us. 7/

#rainbowbridge the greatest sorrow, in all of our losses and tribulations that we go through, was already paved for us long ago, by Our Lord Jesus Christ. That is the gift. 8/

#rainbowbridge He came down for us to experience what we go through. He knows, and has promised Paradise for us if we follow His will. Our dogs souls are mortal, but they’re provided for us to remind us, that the greatest gift of all, with no more sorrow, is yet to come. 9/

#rainbowbridge until we meet again, God willing, in Paradise. 10/end

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