God Listens When You're Sad

Prayers When Your Animal Friend Is Sick or Dies

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by Carol J. Adams and Press Pilgrim

The Pilgrim Press

Due/Published March 2005, 48 pages, paper

ISBN 0829816674

God Listens When You're Sad: Prayers When Your Animal Friend Is Sick or Dies follows the mourning process of children through a series of prayers that recognizes several aspects of a child's grief--the difficulty of understanding sickness and death, the feelings of worry and fear, having a dream about the deceased animal, one's physical experience of grief, and the sense that adults don't understand what they are going through. Written from a child's viewpoint, the prayers respond to the love and care that naturally exist between children and animals. Through these prayers, children also have the opportunity to deepen their relationship with God. The book contains a blank page upon which the child can glue a photograph of the animal(s) for which they are praying.