keep the faith. McKinley’s months- long, painful recovery left her confined to one room in her house. Visitors came and went, but
Rollie, her golden retriever, was a constant companion. “Rollie would come in every day, a little spring to his step, panting with excitement, eyes full of joy. I noticed after a while that my heart was beginning to feel his joy,” she wrote. “For the first time in a long while I was able to find God. … Rollie had been my angel. I don’t know if I could have made that connection without him.” Jonah the cairn terrier also
Jonah the cairn terrier, pet of Herbert Chilstrom, former ELCA presiding bishop, and his wife, Corinne, Green Valley, Ariz.
Photos provided by contributors.
helped his owner, Herbert Chilstrom of Green Valley, Ariz., connect with God. The former ELCA presiding bishop wrote My Friend Jonah and Other Dogs I’ve Loved (Huff, 2014), where he recounted the day he and his wife took 17-year-old Jonah to be put
down: “I held Jonah’s head in my big hands and leaned close to his ear. In a strong voice I said for the last of a thousand times, ‘Jonah, you’re a good boy.’ The doctor administered the fatal dosage. His head fell into my hands.” At Jonah’s grave site that day,
Chilstrom reflected on life beyond this world: “Is there more to life than the brief time we spend together here in this corner of God’s universe? Then I say, ‘Yes, I believe there is.’ “Thanks, Jonah, for teaching me how to live—and how to die.”
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Erin Strybis is a content editor of Living Lutheran and a member of Resurrection Lutheran Church, Chicago.
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