神啊！请照顾我的狗！
Vivian卓卉勤：东西方教育孩子的模式有很大差异！
如果你家孩子有这样的爱，请不要无情的灭掉他小小的爱火！
那是长大后用多少金钱都买不回的爱！共勉！
美國德州4歲女孩梅若迪斯(Meredith)是爸媽的獨生女，最常陪伴她的就是家裡的老狗艾比(Abbey)。2006年的夏天，那時已經14歲的艾比，有天早上再也沒有醒來，爸爸媽媽用了很多種方法，都沒辦法隱藏艾比已經老死的事實，他們只能告訴梅若迪斯：「艾比去天堂了，上帝會好好照顧牠」。小梅若迪斯看起來沒有特別悲傷，沒有大哭大鬧，她異常的安靜，若有所思的想著事情，爸媽開始有點擔心時，梅若迪斯隔天卻突然和媽媽說：「我可以寫一封信給上帝嗎？」媽媽拿出信封信紙，梅若迪斯用著她僅識的粗
淺字彙寫著：
「親愛的上帝，可以麻煩你照顧我的狗嗎？她昨天死掉了，現在應該和你一起在天堂。
我非常想念她，也謝謝你讓她陪伴我，即使她生病了。希望你能陪她一起玩，她愛玩球也喜歡游泳。
我附上一張照片，這樣你看到她就知道她是我的狗。我真的很想他」。
媽媽牽著梅若迪斯的手，兩人散步到鎮上的郵局，寄出了這封信。
2個星期後，奇蹟出現了，那天爸媽帶著梅若迪斯回到家時，家裡來了一個包裹，金色的包裝紙上面寫著
「給小梅。上帝，與他的一位特別天使寄」。
梅若迪斯坐在小桌子前面，很慎重的打開這個包裹，裡面是一封信，和一本彩色的書：《當寵物離開時》，書裡夾著
她寄給上帝的那張艾比的照片。信上寫著：
「親愛的梅若迪斯，艾比已經平安的到了天堂，謝謝妳的照片，我馬上就認出她了。
她的病都已經好了，現在在我身邊，就像是在妳心裡一樣。艾比很高興能做妳的小狗。
可是在天堂，我們都沒有身體，沒有口袋來放妳寄來的照片，所以我把它夾在這本書裡還給妳，
希望妳收好，也能永遠記得她。
謝謝妳這封美麗的信，也謝謝妳媽媽幫妳寄來，真是個好媽媽，我特別替妳挑選的呢。
我每天都會祝福你們，也請記得我非常愛妳。
另外，妳很容易就能找到我，只要有愛的地方就有我。
上帝」
梅若迪斯的爸媽簡直不敢相信自己看到的，而很快，他們也查出原來是郵局的一位女性員工，因為看到了梅若迪斯寄出的信，擔心小女孩會太過難過，才擅作主張回了這封信。
現在梅若迪斯已經10歲，媽媽說：「當時她從來沒有懷疑過，這封信是不是上帝寄回的，她全然的相信了神的存在，也順利的走出那段陰霾」。由於郵局這位女士不願意公佈自己的身份，梅若迪斯的爸媽也只能多次私下向她致謝，並成為好友。
When Abbey, the beloved 14-year-old dog of the Scrivener family died, one little girl’s grief was eased in the most touching of fashions.
Telling her parents that she wanted to write a letter to God, four-year-old Meredith dictated a note to her mother and together they traveled down to their post office in Brook Hollow, Texas to post it.
Two weeks later to their amazement, the family returned home to find a package wrapped in gold on their front porch addressed to ‘Mer’ and signed ‘God, and one of his special angels.’
Inside the mysterious package was a book titled ‘When a Pet Dies’ by Fred Rogers and note, clearly sent in reply to the little girl’s plea to God to ‘please take care of my dog’
‘Dear Meredith,’ read the attached letter.
‘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.
‘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.’
Parents Joy and Greg were stunned as well as touched that someone at their post office would go through so much trouble to help their little girl.
‘I thought that would be the end of it,’ her mother Joy Scrivener later told the United Methodist Reporter about the first letter sent by Meredith.
Since that day in 2006, Joy has received a letter from the ‘angel’ who sent the letter and book. I’ve met the ‘angel’ and wrote a column about her on a different topic without identifying her.
Meredith, however, was less than surprised by the special delivery, according to her mom.
‘When she received the package, she was happy, but she wasn’t surprised,’ she said. ‘There was no doubt in Meredith’s mind that her letter was going to heaven.’
Since that day in the summer of 2006, word of the Scrivener’s story has circulated widely online, with the story spinning into what many believed to have been a sugar-coated fable.
Instead, now approximately 10-years old, Meredith is said to have recovered from her heart-breaking loss, and to have since welcomed the addition of a collie and terrier into their household.
‘She’s doing great,’ Mrs Scrivener told My San Antonio in 2010. ‘She still has a big heart for animals.’
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