Re: Bagel - Beagle/Bassett - Bagel has gone to heaven
Dear Sande,
It's like losing a dear friend to wake up and read this today. No matter I knew it was coming, that this battle could not be won, it still hurts so much. You and Bagel have been part of this family for about as long as Squirt and I; your posts, her stories, ones I always looked forward to seeing. And I though I have already cried for you both from the time of her diagnosis, this morning the tears are hot and fresh once again.
You are so right - you and Bagel are both so very blessed to have had each other. It was obvious in every word you wrote. I am ever so glad she made that 13th birthday; it's just a number, but I understand so well what it meant to reach it, that to you it is much, much more than "just a number".
Bagel is strong and full of energy today, just as she used to be. Her weak and debilitated body has been replaced with an eternal Form that knows no pain, sorrow, or fear. Bagel will always love you, always remember her life here with you. She will always be by your side, in your Heart, in your Soul.
Our deepest sympathies,
Leslie, Squirt, Trinket, Brick, Sophie and our Angels, Ruby, Crystal, and Tasha
May you know that absence is full
Of tender presence and that
Nothing is ever lost or forgotten.
May the absences in your life be full of eternal echo.
May you sense around you the secret
Elsewhere which holds the presences
That have left your life.
May you be generous in your embrace of loss.
May the sore of your grief turn into a well
Of seamless presence.
May your compassion reach out to the ones
We never hear from and may you have
The courage to speak out for the excluded ones.
May you become the gracious
And passionate subject of your own life.
May you not disrespect your mystery
Through brittle words or false belonging.
May you be embraced by God in whom
Dawn and twilight are one and may
Your longing inhabit its deepest dreams
Within the shelter of the Great Belonging.
From John O’Donohue’s Eternal Echoes-Exploring our Hunger to Belong
"May you know that absence is full of tender presence and that nothing is ever lost or forgotten." John O'Donahue, "Eternal Echoes"
Death is not a changing of worlds as most imagine, as much as the walls of this world infinitely expanding.
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