Opie Beekman

1996 - 2009

Location	Hillsboro, Oh
Age	13 years
Date of Birth	6/1996
Date of Death	19/06/2009
Visitors	212 since 01/07/2009
Creator	Vicky Beekman

Opie was one of the gentlest big dogs I've ever known. That was the reason we picked him. When
we bought him, he was 6 months old and when we got out of the van to look for the owners, a pack of
Irish Setters cam barreling down upon us. I thought for sure I was going to be their lunch. Little
did we know that those were the pups and not full-grown dogs!

When we asked the owners if Irish Setters were or could become at any time a mean dog around
children, the answer was shown to us when we looked over and saw their little 3 year boy rough
housing with him, pulling on his ears as hard as he could, wrapping them all the way around his
head! That clinched it for us.

He loved playing the "sock game" (keep away) until he got older and his hips wouldn't hardly let
him any longer. He hated water, especially getting a bath and made sure that he prevented you from
giving him one if he could by blocking the bathroom door with his paws.

We love you Opie. We miss you. Jasper misses you, too. You'll be forever remembered.

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I just wanted to let you know that I made it home. The journey wasn't an easy one, but it didn't take too long.

Everything is so pretty here, so white, so fresh and new I wish that you could close your eyes and that you could see it too. Please try not to be sad for me. Try to understand God is taking care of me...I'm in the shelter of His hands.

Here there is no sadness, no sorrow, and no pain. Here there is no crying and I'll never hurt again. Here it is so peaceful when all the angels sing. I really have to go for now... I've just got to try my wings.

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Jennifer Mc Laughlin July 1, 2009

I know what you're thinking. You think I'm dead. Because you cannot see me with your human eye, cannot feel me with your hands or hold me in your arms, you think I am gone forever.
You recall how I looked when I left this place, and you cannot remotely imagine that I could possibly be alive in another place. You are racked and torn by the pain of our separation and it blinds you to that which is right in front of you... me..............
I'm here to tell you different. You were worthy of my love and undying devotion on earth as I of yours. Do you really believe this love would be snatched from us forever by a loving Creator simply because I wasn't human? Was I not a living, breathing creation with personality? How could I have been so if I didn't possess the energy of soul, spirit and loving light? And if this energy is and always will be, then how can it be that I am dead?
.................

You say that all you have left are memories. Not so. You see, when I took leave of my earthly body I left a little something behind for you. You can't touch it, hold it or examine it for what I left behind is far too uninhibited for confinement. I left behind a piece of my soul. I placed it right next to your own which is quite fitting as we were always side by side in our earthly life together. I love you too much to have left you with nothing but memories, which tend to fade and grow cloudy as the years go by.
I love you too much to have vanished without a trace. How selfish it would be of me to remove love and light from your life.
.............

I understand your tears, each one you shed is testament to your love for me and I am honored and humbled. But don't forget the good things we shared - remember and smile. This is an honor for me as well. And when you need me I will be here. Close your eyes, relax, take slow, deep breaths and picture me in your mind. Shut off the world and your notions of what death is and give me a chance. Look for the subtle signs I send you. Don't stop being proud of me, I am a friend to be proud of, I am still your friend and soul mate.
Don't memorialize the death of my body but instead honor and celebrate my never-ending life for it is eternal and forever as is my love for you.
Until we meet again...
Author Unknown
(Passage from UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN)
THIS IS NOT THE FULL VERSION AS SO MANY CHARACTERS ARE ALLOWED, IT WAS WRITTEN FOR A DOG AND YOU CAN FIND THE FULL VERSION ON THE NET