Posted on 07/28/2013 1:59:03 PM PDT by Lazamataz
I've suspected it all my life, but the events over my life have confirmed my suspicions.
I'm 56, and have struggled with that all my life. I keep trying to comprehend it in rational terms.
That won't work. This is not a 'brain thing'. Brains are wonderful problem-solving tools, but this is an emotional 'heart' thing.
Of course.
I share your pain and yes, thank you for this piece.
LLS
Have you ever heard about Rainbow Bridge?
Take care buddy.
5.56mm
We have a black male cat. His name is Angus, but he prefers King Boo. Around the other cats, the dogs, and , yes, people..... that is what he things he is...King.
A couple of nights ago my daughter was quietly crying because of some stress she is having. Boo gently jumps on her lap and proceeds to lick her forehead...many times.
Cathy loved you because you gave her love.
I believe pets are "given" to us for a reason and He knows why. It's up to us humans to learn why He did.
Hugs for you my FRiend. Sorry for your loss.
Excellent job, Laz! Our pets really do make us better people. We picked up Musket’s ashes on Saturday. I cried all the way home. A much bigger box than his buddy’s, Kenny. Both of their boxes are under our bed. I hope with time that the good memories are the only memories we can remember of them. That is what I am struggling with right now... the bad ones. Love and hugs to you... Mom
p.s. Cathy was a beautiful girl. Her life was meaningful and good because of you. Your life is meaningful and good because of her. That’s how I choose to look at our human bonding with our pet buddies.
The same week that my father died almost 6 years ago, I had to help my beloved 19 year old Bubba to the Rainbow Bridge. One of the worst weeks of my life. I will be forever grateful to God that I didn’t have to make that last trip to the vet the same day I buried Dad.
My mother passed away earlier this month and my beloved Lucy is not going to me with me much longer. I know when I make that last trip to the vet, I will be a puddle of tears. Lucy has been my beloved friend for 19 years. I think she’s staying for a little while longer because she knows I’m grieving. She sits next to me and just purrs and we are happy together.
Thank you for sharing your story. You have been a blessing.
And like you, I was very fortunate to have the purring chest cat experience. None of my other cats are/were as special, even though each one shows their ‘love’ (appreciation) in a different way.
I sincerely hope that for some one capable of so much love to give can find in his heart some other deserving cat(s) to share and cherish. Give some other cat(s) a chance, after some appropriate time of grieving.
“I learned to be present in the moment. At one time when she was a little better, when she was on my chest purring, I let go of the possible future and outcome, and I stepped out any regrets about the past — I was just with her. Simply with her. I felt her, warm, on my chest, rumbling with the loving purr, and I thought, “This is so nice. This feels good.” That moment is eternal. I shall always keep it with me. It informs me that it is so important to be present and in the moment with our pets, and our loved ones, right now. The moments we make become like concrete, solidified in our souls, so that they may be treasured and kept for all eternity. It seems that if we are present in the moment, we might actually be able to live a million lifetimes, as each moment becomes pure and timeless.”
This passage just did me in. It is so very rich with truth and I for one am so grateful I am on your list and had the opportunity to read it and re-read it.
So very sorry for your loss and for the roller coaster. It is just amazing the result was this lovely memorial to your beloved Cathy.
Thank you for taking the time to write this and share it.
Your words are timely and I thank you for them.
My ‘inherited’ kitty, Molly, will be the beneficiary of your thoughtful reminders.
So sorry about your dear beloved kitty Cathy. You will see her again I'm sure.
Can't find a reference but I believe St. Thomas Aquinas wrote that animals are reunited with us in Heaven.
God bless you in your sorrow.
caddie
Laz,
Thank you so much for sharing the story and picture of your beloved kitty. You have my deepest sympathy for her loss, and congratulations that you have determined the elements of God’s will in loving her and losing her.
I read your story last night, but was too emotional to comment at that time. We reluctantly acquired a cat in March. I have been totally gobsmacked over the hold our Bobber now has on my heart. We also have recently lost my 25 year old nephew, and he has not been found yet, so working through the combination of grief and acceptance are moment by moment challenges, and I have been trying to work out the ability to continue noticing beauty, wonder, and all the gifts available to us in this wonderland of real life.
Here’s hoping your own health situation is improving. Thank you again for sharing your story.
What an absolutely gorgeous Cathy-kitty. Thank you for your post -- I am so very sorry for your loss.
My beloved 18 1/2 year old Carmen who went to the Rainbow Bridge this last Friday. I am just about too distraught to function. I did receive a "God winks" just minutes before I had to make the final call to the vet, so I know all of our formerly-departed were calling Carmen home.
Very nice Laz, well written and heartfelt. Black cats are the best. Bless her and you.
Dear Laz, I am so sorry for the loss of your dear kitty cat.
I am relieved to read your insights into where our beloved pet’s spirits go. I lost my horse Jack 4 months ago. He had a sudden problem and had to be euthanized the morning I found him unable to rise in his stall. He was with me for over 10 years. He was about 28 years old. I always said it was “til death do us part” with Jack. As he took his last giant breath I told him I kept my promise to be with him until one of us died.
From the first day he left this world, I have found heart shaped rocks on his grave as I slowly worked at leveling the work the backhoe did in March. I now have a pile of them, different colors and degrees of abstraction from a perfect heart shape. They are now his grave marker. I seeded grass over the grave and have been watering it daily. I have gotten another horse, and still have Jack’s horse companion too. The magic is gone. It left with Jack. The separation is difficult. I carried a lock of his mane hair with me in my shirt pocket for a week after he died just to have some part of him close to me. Here it is 4 months later and just telling you of this has me all undone. I pray that Jack will rejoin me in Heaven. I have been reassured by other horse owners who are Christian that Jesus has a horse in Heaven. Several near death experience books I read confirmed that.
We get a special animal in our lives like Cathy and Jack, sometimes only once in a lifetime, and more if we are lucky. I’ve lost 3 dogs before, and have 2 now. Euthanizing a 1200 pound horse while I whispered I love you in his ear was the most emotional thing I’ve ever gone through. It pains me to recall that morning. He was my steady riding horse, safe and calm, there when I needed to hug his big neck and cry into his mane, he let me kiss his wonderful velvety muzzle and always smelled of perfume there, horse perfume to a horse lover.
I have not wept at his grave for a while. It was daily for many weeks. I put flowers on the grave everyday for weeks. It is good I could bury him near his beloved barn and I can visit anytime I want with just a few hundred feet to walk there. I think loving an animal as intensely as you and I did, does make them able to be with us in Heaven. God is just, and kind and loves us. He would not deny us eternity with our beloved pets.
We are both lucky to have loved our special friends so deeply.
My condolences and hugs to you on the sad passing of your beloved cat.(((((((((((Hugs)))))))))))))):(=^..^=
She was a beautiful cat!
I had a very tough week myself, having just lost one of my cats, age 12, to cancer. She was a tortie named Strawberies.
God bless you and lifting prayers in thankfulness to God tonight, that HE has brought you through this with such wisdom and grace.
All creatures great and small indeed.
Hugs,
Pen
I’m sorry for your loss, Laz. God bless you and yours. I truly hope God lets us have our pets back when Heaven comes to Earth.
Nicely done, Laz. Seems you’ve had more than one epiphany out of this somber event. You have my condolences and my compliments.
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