Meteore,
I pray for your wife's health problems to be resolved. I know it must
be hard for you right now. You sound like a loving husband, and a
loving dog dad. If you have any doubts about the afterlife of your
beloved friend, I will share this story... Sad story but it has a
happy spot.
Many moons ago I had two cats, Sunshine and Hadji. Sunshine was 17,
Hadji was 11. They were housecats, they did not go outdoors, although
Sunshine had been allowed outdoors in her earlier years. That's a
different story why I stopped letting her out.
Any road Sunshine died one morning, at home naturally. I went out and
dug a hole in the backyard and I buried her, and I piled rocks on it
so critters wouldn't mess with it.
The next morning I woke up really early, normally I'm not an early
bird. But for some reason I woke at something like 6:30 am. I went
into the kitchen for coffee and looked out the back window, it
overlooked the backyard. I saw a cat laying on Sunshine's grave. How
odd, a cat laying on this pile of rocks? I'd never seen the cat
before, and I never saw it again.
A couple of days later I was sitting on the loveseat reading a book.
I get very engrossed when I read, I go into that other world and I am
no longer in this one. I wasn't thinking cats or anything this-
worldly. Out of nowhere I heard a loud purring up behind my head.
The cats both liked to sleep on top of the sofa pillows that I leaned
back on, so a cat up behind my head was normal.
I twisted around to pet Hadji, who I assumed had been snoozing up
there near me. But Hadji wasn't there. Okay, I heard him, plain as
day I heard him purring. I got up and looked around, where did he
go? He was just here... but there was no sign of him.
I searched the house and found him SOUND asleep on the bed. There was
no way he'd been up behind my head purring. Hadji was sleeping so
soundly, it was obvious he'd been there a good long while.
I absolutely believe it was Sunshine I heard purring that day.
Telling me she was okay someplace. That her spirit lived on and was
sending me a happy goodbye.
Not only do we live on, so do they.
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