Tommy's Unexpected Arrival

 

I have stopped trying to understand what is going on on the mortal side. While there are joyous days, it seems the majority of them are brutish. Make sure you enjoy the good days because bad ones lie in the weeds, waiting.

Saturday started typically for my good friends Lady, Chance, and Tommy. They had breakfast, played, then went for a walk. That is when Tommy suddenly had a seizure, and in a blink of a teary eye, Tommy was taken to the Bridge.

His parents had no signal that this bright morning would be Tommy's last with them. It is heartbreaking to have a dog slip away to the Bridge when you know it is coming, but it is like being hit with a lightning bolt on a cloudless day when it comes out of the blue. The unexpected is always worse.

Tommy had no warning either. Something was buried deep inside of him, like a ticking time bomb that could not be detected. On Saturday, it exploded, sending him to the Bridge.

Humans are not the only ones who need some warning before crossing over. Tommy had no idea what had happened to him. He was on a pleasant walk with his family. Tommy felt a sharp bit of pain, lay down, and woke up in a river. He crawled to the other side, looking for his parents.

We have seen too many of these sudden deaths at the Bridge, but truthfully one would be too much. We knew we had to guide the lost soul over the Bridge so he wouldn't walk the Earth as a ghost. We began to bark a song together, and the sounds of singing angels drew Tommy across the Bridge.

Tommy crossed over and was happy to see so many of his friends who went to the Bridge and his parent's angel dogs that he barked and yipped excitedly. Then he realized why he was there, and we formed a circle of love around him and helped Tommy with the sudden tragic change in his circumstances.

It took a day for us to help Tommy adjust to his new living conditions and to teach him to visit the parents and family dogs he adored. It will take a lot longer for him to get used to living on this side and get over the immense pain he feels, but he is surrounded by angels who love him and have walked the path he is walking now. We will bring him back to being his fun, exuberant little self soon.

And his parents are going to need the earth angels, the ones who love dogs and care for their parents when they lose them, to do the same. It's a long, hard, cold, lonely road, but I know plenty of experienced angels who have traveled it and can show Tommy's parents the way out.