DOG GONE/My Favorite Christmas Present
My favorite Christmas presents are ones that come from another's heart. My heart beats to help someone or something to have better circumstances. This is a popular time of year for us to recognize that we need to help needy children and/or contribute to agencies that thrive because there are those of us who are "heart" people. I love children and animals, too. Jesus wants us to be about giving, I think, not receiving!
Years ago I asked anyone who normally buys presents for me to make a contribution to my (or their) favorite charity instead of a gift for moi. Some people immediately started honoring my request, some never have. I finally learned to accept that (ACCEPTANCE is the cure for all that ails!!!) I couldn't control others, but I still like to try sometimes.
A few years ago, when I still lived in Kansas, there was a great need to help the dog and cat population. There was an animal shelter. The animal control officers picked up house pets from the street, held them 3 days, and if no one happened by for them, they slaughtered them. Over 600 animals a year were destroyed. (In the US around 5 MILLION pets are "put down"each year.) PUT DOWN sounds so nice, doesn't it, but I prefer slaughtered, because when there are mass numbers, PUT DOWN just doesn't do the horror justice.
I gathered a few friends to meet with the Mayor. That was the beginning of something that has made a difference to the future and lives of the pets and of the folk in that small Kansas town. I left several years ago, but thanks to Sally, the WONDER WOMAN, she has maintained the fund raising programs, added new fundraising programs, devoted TIME UNTOLD to this project of Friends of Animals, and as my mother says, will have lots of jewels in her crown in HEAVEN. SALLY IS AMAZING.
My mother, Evelyn Fern, honors my request. She sends a donation each year to the Friends in Ks. to help save the pets!! Sally wrote to tell me about receiving the Christmas donation and to give me the good news...
BIG NEWS........Only 50 pets were "put down" this year and those animals were really sick dogs and cats mainly. We went from about 600 to about 50! Sally, you made my heart smile. Thank you for carrying on the hard, selfless and unending job of saving the animals in our little town in Kansas.
With HEARTFELT thanks....DOGGONE!!!
I HEART SALLY.....Samuela
Years ago I asked anyone who normally buys presents for me to make a contribution to my (or their) favorite charity instead of a gift for moi. Some people immediately started honoring my request, some never have. I finally learned to accept that (ACCEPTANCE is the cure for all that ails!!!) I couldn't control others, but I still like to try sometimes.
A few years ago, when I still lived in Kansas, there was a great need to help the dog and cat population. There was an animal shelter. The animal control officers picked up house pets from the street, held them 3 days, and if no one happened by for them, they slaughtered them. Over 600 animals a year were destroyed. (In the US around 5 MILLION pets are "put down"each year.) PUT DOWN sounds so nice, doesn't it, but I prefer slaughtered, because when there are mass numbers, PUT DOWN just doesn't do the horror justice.
I gathered a few friends to meet with the Mayor. That was the beginning of something that has made a difference to the future and lives of the pets and of the folk in that small Kansas town. I left several years ago, but thanks to Sally, the WONDER WOMAN, she has maintained the fund raising programs, added new fundraising programs, devoted TIME UNTOLD to this project of Friends of Animals, and as my mother says, will have lots of jewels in her crown in HEAVEN. SALLY IS AMAZING.
My mother, Evelyn Fern, honors my request. She sends a donation each year to the Friends in Ks. to help save the pets!! Sally wrote to tell me about receiving the Christmas donation and to give me the good news...
BIG NEWS........Only 50 pets were "put down" this year and those animals were really sick dogs and cats mainly. We went from about 600 to about 50! Sally, you made my heart smile. Thank you for carrying on the hard, selfless and unending job of saving the animals in our little town in Kansas.
With HEARTFELT thanks....DOGGONE!!!
I HEART SALLY.....Samuela
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