Yet I Rejoice!

Habakkuk 3:18
yet I will rejoice in the Lord,
I will be joyful in God my Savior.

I want to begin by apologizing for not blogging last week.  It was a rather difficult week for me.  For those of you who know me or have read my story, you know I am accompanied by a service dog.  Meshach is my current service dog.  He is actually my second service dog.

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Annie was my first.  We met when she was just six weeks old and were a service dog team for 8 years before I had to retire her because she was going blind.

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This past week she had a stroke.  We believed she was going to come out of it fine because she got up the next day as if nothing had happened.  By Monday evening though, it was a very different story.  She began to have seizures.  She was no longer able to get up and move around.  By midnight we knew we were going to have to make a hard decision the next day.

Tuesday morning I had to say goodbye to a dog that had saved my life so many times. I held her until her very last breath. She was surrounded by family and friends and made as comfortable as possible.

It has been a week since I came home and found her totally disorientated. It has been a long hard road, but I can now say her name and smile.  I can remember all the funny things she did and laugh again.

Tomorrow will probably be rough because it will be one week since I said good-bye.  The day the veterinarian calls to let me know I can pick up her ashes will be another.  However, through this whole situation, the verse in Habakkuk has kept ringing in my ears. “Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior.” Every time I would begin to cry and get upset, I just kept repeating this verse.  I won’t lie and tell you it made me smile right away, but it did make me breathe.  It made me realize I would go on and I would smile again.

I can’t say for sure that our pets will meet us again in heaven, but I sure hope so.  One of my friends put it to me this way.  “Love is in heaven and Annie was pure love!”177633D3-9FCC-420C-9BF3-BE8BEC789B3A

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God Knows What You Need

James 1:17
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.

Mr. Murphy, with his stupid law, was my BFF today.

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I started my day dropping everything I touched. Proceeded to fill my car and gas spit back out all over me. Went to the bathroom (I work in a high school), came out, got back to my classroom only to have a teacher walk in after me to tell me I forgot someone. Yep, I looked down and realized my service dog was not attached to me. Good news, he was exactly where I had left him, in the stall.

Go ahead laugh it up. I can hear you from here!

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It gets better!

On my way home, I looked down and realized I had gone all day with my shirt on inside out. Did I mention the shirt had pockets and they had been hanging out the entire day.

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Told you it got better!

Some days you should  just stay in bed!

So….what could I  possibly be thankful for today? Well, let me tell you…

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This Guy!

This is my wonderful husband, Todd. I texted  him when I got to work this morning to whine about my awful start to the day. Then, I called him at lunch to grumble about how my day had not gotten any better. I walk in the door and griped about the rest of the story of my day and my outfit being inside out. What did he do?

He laughed his head off!

I don’t mean a giggle. I mean roll on the floor, belly laugh with tears streaming down your face laugh!

I mean a totally contagious laugh.

I couldn’t be grumpy anymore.

Thank you Lord for putting this guy in my life. You knew there were going to be days like this and I would need someone to laugh me through.

 

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