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Brooklyn you ran fast
Fast and beautiful and black
Thank you for your life

You came to us scared
And were loved greatly by us
We will miss you girl

Loving, sweet, crazy
You ate some of my papers
I will miss you tons

Brooklyn, was our beautiful black lab that we got earlier this year. She came to occupy a place in our heart that was greater than we realized. Last Sunday night she ran out of the door and sprinted down the street at full speed as she loved to do. Only this time she didn’t see the car coming at the cross street. Both Malia and I were deeply saddened by her unpredicted death.

Life is fragile, and a gift… all life. Take the time to love animals, nature and especially people around you. It produces deep grief when they are gone. But the love and joy that is exchanged while they are here is immeasurably wonderful.

And if you believe, as I do, that God will restore and renew this earth into a new earth with new creation then perhaps this isn’t the last we will see of each other.

Maybe, just maybe, I’ll once again get to see Brooklyn running the streets with her tongue flopping everywhere and blessing those who stop to pet and love on her.

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