What do you do when your animal companion is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness or injury? You do whatever you can, and then you pray. And how do you pray when your heart is breaking and your mind goes blank? You can turn to this book of prayers and stories from those who have been there.Pet Illness, Pet Loss, and Prayers That Help offers prayers you may be struggling to find within yourself at a time of so many intense feelings: fear, sadness, grief, guilt, worry, anger, regret, hope, gratitude, and longing for peace. The authors have drawn from their personal experiences from which they wrote original prayers. They gathered quotes, prayers, and stories from ministers, priests, rabbis, and non-clergy who value the power of prayer to guide, uplift, strengthen, heal, and console. Some of the prayers focus on your pet, and others are for you to help you cope. This book is a unique spiritual support for you and your beloved animal companion from the time of the first crisis and diagnosis, throughout the illness, to the time of death and beyond. Authors Annie Baker and Donna Rae Yuritic are donating a percentage of all royalties to various animal rescues and shelters and horse sanctuary.
Pet Illness, Pet Loss, and Prayers That Help
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Annie Baker holds an M.A. in Counseling Psychology. She brings to her writing her love of animals and years of counseling on issues of grief, guilt, shame, regret, and spiritual crises. Baker has volunteered at the Humane Society of Missouri, the Animal Protective Association in St. Louis, MO, and currently volunteers at The Animal League of Green Valley, Arizona and Equine Voices Rescue and Sanctuary in Amado, Arizona. Many of her prayers in this book spring from personal experience with her beloved dog, Pip, who was diagnosed with heart disease in 2012 and died a few months before the publication of this book in 2015. Donna Rae Yuritic is a certified and ordained animal chaplain, graduate of Emerson Theological Institute in 2005. Her animal ministry at www. CompassionforCreatures.com offers euthanasia support, grief counseling, and blessings for adoption, healing, and at end of life. Yuritic authored her first book in 2007: Animal Angels, Paws to Remember: How to Talk to Your Children about the Loss of Their Animal Companion. She has been interviewed by NPR, Meredith Vieira Webcast, and Phoenix newspapers. She was featured in Woman's Day magazine and Cesar Millan's magazine, Cesar's Way. She currently volunteers for Home Fur Good Animal Shelter in Phoenix, Arizona.