"Life isn't always sunshine and roses, my darling." That is what my precious Daddy used to say to me when I was down or just in a crabby PMS mood as a teenager. But he was right. Life surely isn't always sunshine and rainbows. In fact, sometimes it just gets right nasty!!! Life got literally nasty for the Mom of the Ark today. I spent all morning , digging through a literal mountain of trash that in what they call The Landfill. For 20 years, I had hidden something very very special to give to The Little Sweetie when she turned 25. No one would find it. Well, no one will ever find it now for sure...not even me! It was accidentally folded up in something yesterday while they were finishing our floors, and thrown into the landfill in the late afternoon. I didn't realize it was missing until last night. Too late. I went to the landfill at 7:30 a.m, but they had already bulldozed. I dug anyway. My dear sweet friends who helped me dig, got into some insulation and they were burning and itching so we decided to go home! Of course we had no success. Depressed wasn't even the word.
I came home to find sweet members of The Ark wanting food and wanting to console me as well. I walked around them in a "zombie like state" all day. Those eyes...those eyes... They look at you as though they can read your soul . Animals are God's way of cheering us up in so many ways. Animals are God's very special angels sent to us.
Thank you, Dear Lord for sending them our way, and giving us a heart big enough to take them in.
I love you, Marianne. I love your heart.
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