Touching Story of Meredith and Abbey

The author of this is unknown to me but what a neat story.

Thank God there are still people in this world that would take the time to do something like this.

This is one of the kindest things I've ever experienced. I have no way to know who sent it, but there is a beautiful soul working in the dead letter office of the US postal service.

[Also at DBKP.com: Kindness of a Stranger: Touching Story of Meredith and Abbey.




Our 14 year old dog, Abbey, died last month. The day after she died, my 4 year old daughter Meredith was crying and talking about how much she missed Abbey. She asked if we could write a letter to God so that when Abbey got to heaven, God would recognize her. I told her that I thought we could so she dictated these words:

Dear God,

Will you please take care of my dog? She died yesterday and is with you in heaven. I miss her very much. I am happy that you let me have her as my dog even though she got sick.

I hope you will play with her. She likes to play with balls and to swim. I am sending a picture of her so when you see her. You will know that she is my dog. I really miss her.

Love, Meredith.

We put the letter in an envelope with a picture of Abbey and Meredith and addressed it to God/Heaven. We put our return address on it. Then Meredith pasted several stamps on the front of the envelope because she said it would take lots of stamps to get the letter all the way to heaven. That afternoon she dropped it into the letter box at the post office. A few days later, she asked if God had gotten the letter yet. I told her that I thought He had.

Yesterday, there was a package wrapped in gold paper on our front porch addressed, "To Meredith , " in an unfamiliar hand. Meredith opened it. Inside was a book by Mr. Rogers called, "When a Pet Dies." Taped to the inside front cover was the letter we had written to God in its opened envelope. On the opposite page was the picture of Abbey & Meredith and this note:



Dear Meredith,

Abbey arrived safely in heaven.

Having the picture was a big help. I recognized Abbey right away.

Abbey isn't sick anymore. Her spirit is here with me just like it stays in your heart. Abbey loved being your dog. Since we don't need our bodies in heaven, I don't have any pockets to keep your picture in, so I am sending it back to you in this little book for you to keep and have something to remember Abbey by.

Thank you for the beautiful letter and thank your mother for helping you write it and sending it to me. What a wonderful mother you have. I picked her especially for you.

I send my blessings every day and remember that I love you very much.

By the way, I'm easy to find, I am wherever there is love.

Love,
God

by RidesAPaleHorse
image: RAPH
Source: Kindness of a Stranger: Touching Story of Meredith and Abbey


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Stranger Gives Iowa Couple $100,000

An Iowa couple landed in a real life dream. When they woke up, they were $100,000 richer.

In a story that sounds like the plot of a TV movie--or something out of the old TV series, "The Millionaire", an Iowa couple was handed a check for $100,000 by a complete stranger--under the condition they not reveal who he was.

In the old "Millionaire" series, which aired on CBS from January 19, 1955 to June 8, 1960, a man--who was never seen on-camera--gave away extremely large checks to people every week. The one condition: that the source of the money could never be revealed.

The Millionaire was John Beresford Tipton, a semi-retired industrialist and shown obscured by one of his high-backed leather chairs, viewers seeing only his right arm as he reached for a cashier's check for one million dollars, each week, and handed it to his executive secretary, a mild-mannered, good-humoured, but no-nonsense man named Michael Anthony.

It was Anthony's job to travel and deliver that check to its intended recipient, staying only long enough to present the gift and then, customarily, leaving the recipient's life forever.

For a couple named Alissa and Barry, it was the beginning of a dream-come-true as they ate last Thursday at Dr. Salami's Cafe in Pella, Iowa.

"He basically just came into the restaurant and just came in and started talking to us," Barry said in an exclusive interview on "Good Morning America" today. He was most interested in whether they had any children, Barry said.

After they replied that Alissa did indeed have a 2-year-old child, the man slid a check across the table and asked the couple to fill out the check with any amount they wished. The two assumed he was joking and made the check out for $100,000.

The benefactor signed the check and said, "I'm good for it," Alissa said. The next day Alissa and Barry were unsure of what they were going to do with the check.

"We're either going to throw it away or try it. Let's give it a whirl," Barry said. "[We] really didn't think it was going to happen. It's too rare for something like that to happen."

Alyssa and Barry endorsed the check, decided to cash it and were stunned when the check actually cleared and they received a $100,000 in cash--a real-life dream gift of a lifetime.

In another twist that could have come from a "1001 Arabian Nights" or "Grimm's Fairy Tales", there were four conditions to their keeping the money.

1 They were not allowed to reveal their last names.

2 They were not allowed to reveal the man who gave them the money.

3 They had to use the cash to buy or build a house.

4 If they had another child together, they must name the child after their benefactor.

But Alissa and Barry were able to reveal a little about their newly-discovered friend.

[H}e is in his late 50s and said he was just passing through Pella on his way to Des Moines and had stopped to get gas. He also said he had done this before. One thing he liked to do, he told Alissa and Barry, was to wait outside a Wal-Mart and buy carts full of groceries for people. And he once bought someone a car, he claimed.

The man told them that he regretted that he had never had grandchildren, which was why he asked them to name their next child after him, Alissa and Barry said.

The couple said they will honor his request about the name. Alissa, whose birthday is today, said she hasn't decided whether she and her boyfriend will buy or build a house because they are still dealing with all that's happened.

"It's been a pretty stressful week — too much time to think about details," Alissa said.

The stranger wound up his visit with Alissa and Barry by tipping the waitress $100.

"I hope no one finds out who he is because that is the way he wanted it. He is just a nice guy," the waitress said. "You never know who is sitting next to. You never when you when you can make a difference in someone else's life."

This story has demonstrated three things to us.

Sometimes, life imitates art.

Sometimes, not all of the news of the world today is bad.

Sometimes, strangers who offer blank checks are not crazy.

by Mondoreb
hat tip: crazy dog
images:
* ABC
* artlondon
Sources:
* Stranger Gives Couple $100,000
* The Millionaire

INFIDEL WARRIOR BABES #10: Kindness of Strangers

by Little Baby Ginn
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INFIDEL WARRIOR BABES#9



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