Dear Marsha,
I sit reading the blog, with my little Nubi on my lap, with tears in
my eyes as I see email after emai lregarding your loss. I wanted to
give you something from my culture that has helped me to deal with loss.
1. In all life, there is a time of coming and a time of going. what we
are truely honoured by, is that we were chosen to share the time
between these two events.
2. In life there is joy but there is also sadness, in death there is
no sadness, aside from that felt by those left behind. to those left
behind, the comfort is knowing that the part of your little dogs life
you touched was obviously flled with love and compassion, probably
much like the love and compassion you share for your son.
I also have a child, and I cringe to think how your boy must be
feeling right now, knowing the pain he has caused you even if he is
unwilling to show you that hurt. What we sometimes forget as adults,
is that it is with age and wisdom we learn to curb our impulses and
closely control our behaviour. Children are still in the process of
learning this repression.
Although I am not attempting to excuse the behaviour, nor would I be
able to if my child had done this, but I can understand a level of
frustration we all can sometimes feel in situations were we slip out
of control, and the guilt that follows us the rest of our days because
of our rash and often unwise choices.
Often times, we feel the best justice, is the justice offered by the
sword, but truly the worst punishment, is the burden we carry in our
hearts. Your son feels this burden. Just as your pain and greif is
real, so too must his be.
I wish you strength to work through this crisis, and I wish you
compassion and forgiveness as these are often our hardest emotions to
mount.
Me and Nubi are thinking of you.
Dana
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