Life's a two-sided coin: goodbye Maxx

[sellersm]

When you think about it, life is a two-sided coin: life on one side and death on the other. In fact, you can't define death without life! Death is contingent upon the existence of life, but life is not contingent upon death!

This reality came abundantly clear to our family yesterday morning when we lost one of our border collies, Maxx. He had been sick last week, and on Friday we took him to the vet and he stayed there all day while they performed test after test and found nothing of any significance (except a whopping vet bill!). Saturday night he actually made it up the stairs to sleep in his normal place: on his dog bed, next to my wife. Sunday morning he went out back to do his morning routine and then laid down on the floor by the backdoor, and was gone a few minutes after that. No cries, no stress, no trauma, just silently went away... God was gracious, as always! HE is the one that made this two-sided coin!

Maxx was our 2nd rescued border collie (from Wyoming Border Collie rescue, they're not defunct) and was only about 8 or 9 years young. He fulfilled his purpose and his end of watch has come...

Thanks for letting me honor Maxx and the God that created him.

Maxx is the brown/white one next to Chip, our 1st border rescue: