Prayables | love never gives up

Published: Thu, 12/07/17

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
Thursday December 7, 2017
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There's two kinds of practice and the first is quite common. Practice your technique to get yourself ever more skilled at doing it. The other kind of practice is more valuable and rare. The practice of prayer, doing it every day, not to be better at it - but to be better for it. May you be blessed with a prayer practice that strengthens your spirit, calms your soul, and honors your God.
GOLDEN RETRIEVER LEFT TO DIE IS NOW A THERAPY DOG 

Wrapped inside a trash bag and left for dead inside a dumpster, with her bound legs raw and rotting away by the wires still wrapped around them, Chi Chi the golden retriever clung to life.

Thanks to two sets of rescuers — the animal workers who found her in South Korea and the Arizona family who adopted her shortly afterward — Chi Chi not only survived, but now inspires others with her spirit and strength.
Today, despite having all four limbs amputated above the paws, Chi Chi has no problem getting around her home or around town. Her new family has fitted her with prostheses, enabling her to travel around Phoenix to provide comfort each week as a therapy dog who works with veterans, physical rehab patients, people with Alzheimer’s disease and young children learning how to read.

“Her story is about resilience and overcoming life’s worst, and just never giving up," said Richard Howell, the real estate agent whose family adopted her. "That’s what she embodies for us and for everybody who meets her."
His wife, Elizabeth, first spotted Chi Chi shortly after her amputation surgery in a Facebook video posted by Animal Rescue, Media and Education, the parent organization of a group from which the couple adopted two beagles. Elizabeth watched the video repeatedly, captivated by Chi Chi’s eyes...READ MORE + VIDEO
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Please Sisters and Brothers please pray for my daughter, shes deeply saddened and cant eat. From being bullied at school. Please Lord send down Your Angels to watch and protect her. Also to make her strong and for her to realize there is only one who she needs to only care about - what God thinks about her. Please pray.

- Victoria N.
 
 
 
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