What happens to our animals when they die? Recently I got a letter from Janina Brooks in Ontario, Canada, who had lost her two beloved German Shepherds.
Soon after they died, she woke up at 3:00 a.m. to see small glittering lights floating and flashing round the room. The spots grew bigger. They whirled and swirled around, landing on the floor in a ball and then transmuting into what looked to her like a howling head. She thought they were her dogs, but when the lights suddenly shot toward her, she was so frightened that she ran out of the room.
Later that morning, she got a phone call saying her dog’s ashes were ready to be picked up. Feeling awful, deeply depressed, Janina, an abstract painter, started painting.
Lost in thought, she wasn’t paying attention to what she was painting. But when the paint dried she saw, not her usual abstractions but the profile of her female dog in perfect detail and beside her in the painting stood the male dog, howling.
“I will never sell that painting,” she wrote. She feels it was a gift from them.
The great Swedish mystic Emanuel Swedenborg says that our beloved animals go to heaven, and are with us later when we die. I think it’s true. For our animals are full of love, and heaven is love, and how could a God of love not find space for love?
Send in a prayer for your pet.
Plus, read our stories about grieving a pet, Pet Project, Angels Rest and Do Pets Go to Heaven?
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Sophy Burnham is the author of 12 books. She is best known for her ground-breaking books on the spiritual dimension of life, including A Book of Angels, The Ecstatic Journey and The Path of Prayer. She is a frequent public speaker and gives workshops worldwide.
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