A Little Gray Reminder

Yesterday while I was in the midst of preparing a turkey dinner for us to enjoy my husband came across a small gray striped kitty in our woods in distress. We were able to catch the kitty after a bit of a struggle and put the kitty in a box wrapped in a towel. I sat talking to our furry friend in the garage calling neighbors while my husband walked around knocking on doors in search of an owner.

After having no luck finding the owner, we took the kitty to a 24 hour emergency vet clinic 35 miles away in Grand Rapids, Michigan. We waited and talked of what to do with our new little friend who didn’t have a collar or chip. We learned our fury friend is a boy.

He had locked his jaw around the towel we gave him and had no control of his limbs by the time we got to the clinic. Very sadly we learned our new little buddy had tetanus which is not really a treatable condition.

We had to say good bye to him this sweet little kitty who captured our hearts. We both were in tears. We let him know he was loved.

We are very glad he didn’t have to die alone in the woods. We know that is why my husband found him. It was meant to be. Today we will bury him out back along side our two other kitties who are in kitty heaven too.

Sometimes we don’t have very long with special ones who touch our lives.

This has been a good reminder for me of just how precious life really is and just how important every minute of life really is. Every minute counts.

I’m good at getting all caught up in my head, in my thoughts, in a reality that is not real and waste my energy and my time in this way zoning out. I mindlessly miss so much of what is right before me what is really real.

Yesterday I was focused on what was before me experiencing events as they unfolded. I was in the moment using my senses and mindfully present. This experience has reminded me of the importance of practicing mindful living.

I sacrifice my life in this moment when I think about things that are not present, not real, not here and now.

Today I will savor that turkey dinner that was put on hold being grateful for the enrichment yesterday brought to me and add yet another blessing to the list of what I am grateful for…a little gray striped kitty “my little buddy”.

What is unfolding around you right here right now in this moment in your life?