Dread of Tiara's Birthday

Saturday will be Tiara's birthday, our beloved and faithful furry baby. She will be 14 years old.
Every year I dread her birthday more than my own. The dog I didn't want has become the creature I cannot imagine living without.

Who would greet me at the door each time I enter? Who will follow me from room to room and patiently sit by my feet, asking for nothing but my presence?

Who can cry, laugh with me, sooth my hurts without a word? She is my angel on earth.
She asks so little in return, just the basic needs to live. She never complaints, whines, holds a grudge. While our children have grown and left us. she remains, makes us laugh, gives us reason to walk the nights and see the sunset and stars above.

The rhythm of her little paws moving are musical phrases to my ears even in the middle of a restless night.

In the book of Hebrews it says "Nothing in all creation is hidden from God".
In Genesis after God saved the animals from death, he made a covenant with them ( as well as man) including all creatures. From beginning to end, His creatures are a part of our existence whether on earth or heaven, whether in the past or the future.

I take much comfort in this. God said He "has set the rainbow in the clouds..." as a sign of the covenant between Him and the earth. BUT it doesn't end there, He says "Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I WILL SEE IT and remember the everlasting covenant between God and ALL living creatures of every kind on the earth."
(Gen 9:16)

WOW, a God that not only gives us a reminder of His love but each time it appears (whether we see it or not) He sees it with us!!!!

Last Saturday afternoon as we drove around running our errands, we saw 3 separate rainbows. One so thick, wide and colorful, looked like a hollywood set. I remembered that very moment that as I glanced and admired the beauty, so has my God done so with me!

Can't believe the Almighty Creator would care enough to share that very moment with me! AND He continued to see it as I darted in and out of the stores mimutes later and have long forgotten about the image.

So, even when I forget, He remembers my Tiara. And a God that loves so much, has made the love between Tiara and I possible, uses His creatures to do His bidding throughout history, and includes them in the end of time... He will also have her there to greet me when I get to Heaven.
Aterall, how can it be heaven without Tiara?