Posted by PS on July 08, 2003 at 15:32:32:
In Reply to: Angel is a little heartbreaker posted by giveawayboy on July 08, 2003 at 10:19:54:
: By embracing sadness we are really maximizing our ability to experience love. Your decision is complex and so personal between three (and now more) special people. I lived with Angel and have my own sadness too. I remember her licking my face, jumping into my lap and jumping all all over me and others. We all will feel loss. But I wouldn't have it any other way. I think that it's ten times more beautiful than going through life indifferent.
You are right on the mark, my friend. Love means nothing without the pain of loss and death.
I have made another tough decision that I know is the right thing. Miss Stinky Poo our little skunk princess is now also with our Father and awaits our reunion. She is now running around playing skunk tag, stamping her front feet, and doing hand stands, and loving life just like she used to before she got so sick. I could not let her continue in her constant pain any longer either, with her arthritis, ashthma, ongoing foot infections, and her incontinence. She just wasn't having any fun anymore and life was all pain for her. I held her and told her I loved her and let her go. Both my sweet girls are buried in my back yard, with Scamper the Skunk, Cyon the Red Raccoon, and Jazz the Bengal cat. We have such a crowd waiting for us at the Rainbow Bridge we will undoubtedly be stampeded.
Please pray for Cari. It was exactly a year ago that Cyon unexpectedly died here during the night right before the day Cari was arriving home from Cornerstone, and she was also not able to say goodbye to him. She is now heartbroken she couldn't say goodbye to Angel, whom she has loved dearly for 14 years. I feel so bad for her. Please pray for her!