Our poor Lucy (one, of our two, orange cats) has a penny-sized bladder stone that she's going to have surgery to remove tomorrow morning.
Please pray that the surgery goes smoothly, and also that the vet is able to figure out what caused the stone to form so that we can prevent this from happening again in the future.
Our options were: do the surgery to prevent kidney failure or "give her up." Although some will argue that costs of surgeries for animals could be used for better purposes, I believe God understands and wants us to do what is best for the animals that we are blessed to care for.
Proverbs 12:10 says, "A righteous man cares for the needs of his animal."
God makes his love for animals clear so many times throughout scripture. I believe that our beloved pets will have a place in Heaven with us. Our God understands the firm hold these pint-sized beings have on our hearts with their constant companionship and unconditional love.
Psalms 50:10-11 says, "For all forest creatures are mine already, the animals on the mountains in their thousands. I know every bird in the air, whatever moves in the fields is mine."
Ecclesiastes 3:19-21 says, "Man's fate is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath, man has no advantage over the animal. Everything is meaningless. All go to the same place; all come from dust and to dust all return. Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?"
and Luke 12:6 says, "Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God."
It's comforting and amazing to know we serve a God who remembers every sparrow (and kitty).
Cuddling the first morning we brought them home from the Humane Society.
Gibson on the left, Lucy on the right.
Lucy on the left, Gibson on the right. First night we had them.
