Sunday, February 17, 2008
Northern Illinois University Tragedy
This time it wasn't somewhere in Colorado or Virginia but in Illinois. This time it was in the corn fields, not far away from us.
Young people who had their whole life ahead of them were killed by someone who didn't take his medicine. How sad!
It is in times like these that we ask why? Why my son, why my daughter, why me, why us? There are answers that come but they take awhile and they don't bring your loved one back. During a very difficult funeral service I heard a minister once say, “God didn't give us answers, He gave us Jesus”. That isn't the answer we want to hear.
The holidays are never the same, life is never the same, and yet not one bird stops singing. The world moves forward and you want to yell STOP! But in response all you hear is your heartbreak.
Many of those grieving assembled at churches today and cried their tears and prayed their prayers. There will be many more tears and many more prayers. Many will pray for peace--and there will be no peace for months and perhaps years to come. Yet, somehow, they must find a reason to go on; a reason to sleep, and eat, and work. It is never easy but it is always the choice one has to make. May they find peace.
Young people who had their whole life ahead of them were killed by someone who didn't take his medicine. How sad!
It is in times like these that we ask why? Why my son, why my daughter, why me, why us? There are answers that come but they take awhile and they don't bring your loved one back. During a very difficult funeral service I heard a minister once say, “God didn't give us answers, He gave us Jesus”. That isn't the answer we want to hear.
The holidays are never the same, life is never the same, and yet not one bird stops singing. The world moves forward and you want to yell STOP! But in response all you hear is your heartbreak.
Many of those grieving assembled at churches today and cried their tears and prayed their prayers. There will be many more tears and many more prayers. Many will pray for peace--and there will be no peace for months and perhaps years to come. Yet, somehow, they must find a reason to go on; a reason to sleep, and eat, and work. It is never easy but it is always the choice one has to make. May they find peace.
Friday, February 01, 2008
Kitty Heaven
It was exactly one week ago that I took our cat cuddles to the vet to be put to sleep. It was very painful for me to do so. We got cuddles from the humane society about 6 years ago and he was family. He was 9 when we got him and was a very loving kitty.
At the last drs visit we were told he was nearly blind and was losing weight. His fur was all matted and he sometimes had accidents. All those things didn't make it any easier to put him in a taxi and take him to the vet.
We received a nice card from the vet indicating we had done a loving thing, but that didn't help very much.
I like to think of him froliking in kitty heaven with our other cat we had to put to sleep. His name was spook. Perhaps they are sitting around the kitty bowl talking about us now.
This is an example of the whole problem of us loving and caring, in that one has to give up and lose.
I'm told there are cat people and dog people. I'm guessing the people who love dogs wouldn't understand how I feel. Peace.
At the last drs visit we were told he was nearly blind and was losing weight. His fur was all matted and he sometimes had accidents. All those things didn't make it any easier to put him in a taxi and take him to the vet.
We received a nice card from the vet indicating we had done a loving thing, but that didn't help very much.
I like to think of him froliking in kitty heaven with our other cat we had to put to sleep. His name was spook. Perhaps they are sitting around the kitty bowl talking about us now.
This is an example of the whole problem of us loving and caring, in that one has to give up and lose.
I'm told there are cat people and dog people. I'm guessing the people who love dogs wouldn't understand how I feel. Peace.
