| I have often heard people questioning the love that we | | | | tick fever. I prepared some soup for her. She did not |
| as human beings have for our pets. Are we supposed | | | | even want to look at it, let alone smell it! I then |
| to love our pets as much as some folks do? Is it not a | | | | instinctively went on my knees, took her head in my |
| sin to spoil them the way we do, by giving them | | | | hands and prayed to God to please heal her for me |
| special treats while there are less privileged people | | | | because as I told Him' I know that He also loves her as |
| around us? Will our Supreme Being not frown upon | | | | much as He loves me. She was healed that very |
| this love for my dog, horse? | | | | instant! |
| I feel quite confident that I have found the answer to | | | | On another occasion a few days later, I found her in |
| these questions - if you'll allow me to start with a | | | | severe distress and with her one eye swollen almost |
| quote from the Modern King James Bible: | | | | to the size a tennis ball. On investigation I was told that |
| Gen 1:26 And God said, Let Us make man in Our | | | | she tried to chase an Egyptian Cobra and that the |
| image, after Our likeness. And let them have dominion | | | | snake had spit her in the eye. According to the farmer |
| over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the | | | | she would probably loose her eye. This was very |
| heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, | | | | devastating news to me, as she has the most |
| and over all the creepers creeping on the earth. Man | | | | beautiful eyes that any creature could wish for. |
| was thus created to rule over the whole creation. | | | | Distressed as I was at that point, I took some Eno fruit |
| Later (Gen 2:20) Adam had to give names to the | | | | salts, dissolved it in a little water and poured it into her |
| animals, which he did. This implied that he had to have | | | | eye. From her reaction I could see that it was not |
| been close to them to name them after their | | | | doing the eye any good. Again I prayed to God to |
| resemblance. | | | | please cure her eye, as I had neither the knowledge |
| I have a Husky (Levi) that I love very much. She loves | | | | nor the medicine to ease her pain. I also begged of Him |
| me as much - if not more! We live together in a house | | | | to preserve her sight and the beauty of her eye. You |
| on a farm where she can roam and rule as she | | | | guessed it! The very next day, she was well and still |
| please. Come evening, or when I'm at home during the | | | | has the most beautiful bright eyes that any creature |
| day, she would pay me frequent visits, and tempt me | | | | can hope for! Praise the Lord! My point with this citation |
| to play with her. She sleeps in the lounge at night, on | | | | is that if He Loves His creation so much, we, who |
| her designated chair with her towel over it. One | | | | were created to His Image, are also allowed to love |
| evening when I came home, I found her to be very ill | | | | our pets as much. |
| and from the symptoms I could sense that she had | | | | |