Paper hearts

"That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed."
— Elizabeth Gilbert Eat, Pray, Love

I have this reoccurring thought, that i am going to cut out 40 paper hearts and on them write down all the things in this life that i want and then I'm going to go somewhere either really tall or really windy and let them all go. Watch them blow away from me.... because maybe the only things we can let go of are the things we can ever hope to really get. To find them again someplace else down the road , in another place or another moment.. . That it was a real want and that we were meant to have it.
What i learned today.
Do all dogs go to heaven?
Throughout the Bible, there is no mention of pets running around in heaven. The only creatures described in heaven are angels and humans. The Bible indicates that God is a spirit. Angels are also spiritual beings. This is why humans take on a spiritual body so that we can be with God and the angels. However, animals are non-spiritual beings. The higher animals (including the ones we usually choose as pets) are soulish creatures, which is why they can relate to us. However, they lack a spirit, which we humans have, so that their fate is different from ours:

Who knows the spirit of the sons of men, which goes upward, and the spirit of the beast, which goes down to the earth? (Ecclesiastes 3:21)

So, it seems very likely that we won't be seeing our pets in heaven. It probably is not the answer you wanted to hear, and me either....

I have had a deflating last few days ...but rather than go into the specifics which could and would probably be depressing and rhetorical i will leave you with a cookie recipe......cause well...... cookies are happy. Right?

Snicker doodles Cookies
Ingredients:
1 cup unsalted butter
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
2 1/2 cups flour
2 teaspoons cream of tartar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup sugar (topping)
4 teaspoons cinnamon (topping)



Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 400.

2. Mix butter, sugar, and eggs.

3. Blend in flour, baking soda, cream of tartar and salt. Shape dough by rounded teaspoonfuls into balls.

4. Mix 4 teaspoons cinnamon and 1/4 cup sugar in a shallow bowl. Coat each dough ball with the cinnamon sugar mixture.

5. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheet.

6. Bake 8-10 minutes. Remove immediately from baking sheet.

s.o.t.d.
I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. Romans 8:18