Adapted from Edward Grinnan’s Editor’s Note for the January 2017 issue of Guideposts. If you’d like to subscribe, click here.
My wife, Julee, and I can’t imagine life without a dog to love and be loved by. The problem with loving dogs is that you outlive all but the last one.
Two years ago, when our beloved 8-year-old golden retriever, Millie, was diagnosed with cancer and given only months to live, you readers responded with an outpouring of prayers and sympathy.
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So many of you knew the heartache we were going through, the price we pay for the joy our dogs selflessly give us.
I’ve written a book about Millie and all the dogs I’ve loved, the lessons they’ve taught me, the mysterious way just the right dogs have been put at my side at just the right moments in my life, like instruments of heaven.
I also weave in a few of my favorite, most inspiring dog stories from Guideposts and share what they meant to me personally. You can place an order here for Always by My Side, which will be out this February.