Lil
Bit at the Heavenly Dog Park
By Nita Wilson
Lil
Bit was asked to help with some of the dogs getting fat and lazy since coming
to Heaven. As a rule when dogs first get
to heaven, they are young again and happy to wag once tired tails. They are happy to run again without pain and
catch stars and meteors thrown for them by Lil Bit and her friends. But once a new dog gets used to the venue,
many go back to old habits from their elderly days on earth and laze around all
day waiting for their tummies to be rubbed and scratched and a friendly voice
to call them to supper. One of the jobs
Lil Bit shared with her friend, Punkin Seed, was to make sure these dogs didn’t
get too fat and lazy. Jesus felt there
were too many wonderful things for them to do in heaven and shouldn’t be lazing
around all day. Of course, on occasion
if a dog had been extra busy or helped a frightened child adjust to its
surroundings in Heaven, Jesus would let the pooch slack off a bit and have a
few days of belly rubs and bone chewing, but this was rare for Jesus to
allow.
Now,
in Heaven, you’re allowed to create your own reality. If for instance you like the beach and an ocean
view, then that’s where you live in Heaven.
If you like the snow topped mountains, then you live there. John King for instance, lives in a big pirate
ship on a calm ocean close to a safe harbor and path going to his mum’s cottage;
that’s how it is for him. Well, pets and animals are no different. It would be silly for a cat to live in the
water, or a bird in a cage; they choose their own realities just as human
souls. So… many times if a little Dachshund, for instance, lived on a nice cushion
next to a low window affording him a view of his domain on earth, he will
choose the same in Heaven. Some choose
different venues. If a pet was a stray
and slept under abandoned cars or in a garbage dump; their new home in Heaven
is usually a mansion with servants and silver bowls full of meaty dog snacks
and tasty bones that never get smaller than the first bite. You name it, Heaven has it.
Punkin
Seed and Lil Bit had been best friends ever since the day Jesus created them
for the new world. When they were baby,
baby angels, Jesus would take them on his daily rounds of Heaven, one on each
shoulder. Souls would come up and gently
pinch their baby cheeks and kiss a wing.
One young angel taught them how to give Jesus angel kisses with their
eyelashes on his cheek and they almost couldn’t get enough; they loved to hear
his gentle laugh as he received these blessings. But Jesus was always patient with his
children, angels and human souls and he would never tell them enough is
enough. After all, how bad is that…
getting little eyelash kisses from baby angels all day?
When
they were really young, about two hundred human years old, they called him
‘father’ or ‘Abba’, but once they took on the assignments and began to be
working angels; Lil Bit suggested to Punkin Seed they call him, My Lord. It made them feel grown up and special, but
on occasion when an assignment went wrong or a human refused help, they would
return to ‘Abba” for comfort and love; sometimes shedding a tear for the
mistake the human was making.
Punkin
Seed especially liked to help the pets looking for lost humans. The elderly pet which died after their
beloved elderly human, has a hard time adjusting until he/she can be re-united. Punkin Seed started a lost and found soul’s pet
bulletin board for these lost humans. So
far it had worked very well and people and pets were being reunited every day. This made Jesus especially happy and Lil Bit
had to fight her feelings of envy. Punkin Seed was getting more smiles from Jesus
than she. Jesus knew this and would soon
have a talk with Lil Bit about selfish envy and jealousy. But for now, he’d leave them to their work. There
was one dog soul in particular Punkin Seed and Lil Bit had been watching. It was a big brown and white hound dog whose
reality was a big back porch with lots of squirrel trees around, but he was
unhappy. Souls in Heaven were very
seldom unhappy, so this was a special challenge for both little angels. Lil Bit picked an especially tasty looking
bone from a dish and walked onto Duke’s back porch. He barely lifted his big head but allowed her
to sit next to him and rub his long velvet ear.
She put the bone just at his mouth and the big tongue licked a taste and
ignored it.
“My,
you are unhappy, Duke if you don’t even want this nice bone.” Lil Bit held his paw in her little hand and
gave it a friendly squeeze.
“You
wanna talk about it?” She bent and
lifted an eyelid and smiled into his eye.
He blew out a long sigh and closed his eye again. But got up slowly and shook the dust from his
coat.
“My
sister, Duchess and I left earth together, but I haven’t seen her since. It was always my job to take care of her, but
I didn’t and now I can’t. I can’t be happy until I know she’s happy.”
“Well,
you mean she’s here with us, you just can’t find her?”
“I
mean, when we left the litter and went to live with Farmer Flurry, I promised
my mom I would always look after my sister and take care of her. I’ve broken that promise.” He blew out another sigh and sat down on the
porch looking forlornly out into the yard.
“Was
it your fault you both left earth and are you sure you left earth
together? I mean maybe she’s still back
on earth.” She needed Punkin Seed, he
was good with cases such as this. Her
expertise was saving beings before they reached Heaven, or saving them from
coming to Heaven too soon.
“She
was very curious and I was always saving her from bogs and snakes, but she was
bad to chase cars on the old highway. I
did everything I knew to break her of it, but she said it was the greatest game
in the world and only a fast dog could one day catch up to the car and win the
game. She felt if she could ever catch
the car she would be the greatest dog on earth.”
“Did
she win?” Lil Bit didn’t want to know
the answer.
“No,
she lost big time and when I tried to keep the man from kicking her to see if
she were still alive, there was a loud noise from the man’s hand and I fell
over. All I could hear as I left the
earth was the man yelling, ‘Mad dog, he was a mad dog.’ as I followed Duchess
up into the clouds. Of course I was mad,
darn it… the man swerved on purpose to hit Duchess, any dog would be mad.”
“Then
what happened?” Punkin Seed asked as he
joined the two on the porch.
“We
got to the gates together and she ran after a golf cart full of new arrivals
and I was told to go another way. Now
here we are and I have no idea where she is. Can you be run over twice?”
“Follow
me, I bet I know where she is.” Punkin
Seed left the porch on a thought with Lil Bit and Duke following on the same
thought. Lil Bit looked ahead of her to
see the golf cart station and a hound dog similar to Duke following each of the
carts down the drive. She appeared to be
very happy, wagging her tail and barking at each cart until she got to the big
fluffy road and turned back to the barn.
Duke approached his sister growling and ready for a big lecture, but
once he saw how happy she was, he began to nuzzle her neck and lick her face.
“I
thought I’d never see you again.” He
whined to his sister.
“Don’t
be silly, I could see you on the porch the whole time. See?”
They looked down the lane of the golf cart station and sure enough, in
Duchess’ reality, Duke’s porch was in clear view. She hadn’t tried to find him since she saw
him on the porch enjoying his rug and watching for squirrels in the trees.
“Oh,
this is an easy fix, Duke.” Punkin Seed
said, petting both dogs.
“You
just need to include the Golf Cart Station in your view of the back yard.”
“Yes,
Duke, then you can see me all day. You’ll be proud of me, I catch these things
everyday and people souls laugh and pet my head.”
Duke
decided he would just make the porch in Duchess’ reality his.
“I
think our work is done here.” Lil Bit
and Punkin Seed gave an angel salute of a job well done, tipping their halos
and touching wings.
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