There are certain pets that come into our lives who are unique and special from others we have owned. Murray was one of those pets. He was a handsome strawberry blonde and white tiger Maine Coon whose intelligence surpassed the average cat. There was never a place I took him or a person who met him that didn’t fall instantly in love with him. He was magnetic! He could read me like a book, too.
He wandered into my yard twelve years ago in pretty desperate shape full of fleas and mites and had never been neutered. We guessed he was five years old. It was a miracle he had made it through a winter being outside, but he was a survivor. After much initial TLC he quickly settled in to domestic life.
Unlike any other cat I have ever owned his level of sensitivity was intense and it worked for him as much as against him. He cowered at loud noises and hid in the cellar during thunder storms, but at the same time his keen sensitivity was what connected the two of us spirit to spirit and drew people and other domestic animals to him.
After twelve wonderful years together, on June 29th I had to make the decision to let him go. At seventeen his health had been failing for a few weeks. Then we discovered he had a large mass in his belly that was taxing his breathing. He wasn’t the happy camper he had been all his life. I could not watch him suffer.
The miracle for me was moving through the obstacle of letting him go, of saying the final good-bye and finding myself in an unexpected state of peacefulness. My grief was immense, but there was a calm knowing that he had lived well, contributed in huge way to my life with his beautiful spirit and died so peacefully. I buried him in a field next to the cottage beside a big rock under a sole maple sapling.
Letting go of someone you love is probably one of your greatest challenges as a human being. The miracle comes when you allow your heart, your inner wisdom, to speak the truth. The love you have always felt is the essence, the soul, of the being, not the physical body. This essence never dies, it is eternal. That is the miracle.
Thank you Murray for the miracle of our connection.
Love & Miracles To You,
Maggie