Thinking a bit too much...

Any one, who knows me,
knows my love and compassion for helpless things.

Just when you think you have seen it all, well, sure enough, life
throws in a "zinger".  When in the animal rescue circuit, you see so
much in the eyes of these beautiful creatures.  You see their
happiness, their anticipation, and their love. But you can also
see the pain, hurt, and confusion too. There are times when the
whine of a dog left behind in a shelter, or a cat in pain, due
to ill treatment, rings and reverberates through ones very being.
I sometimes walk away wondering how the hell can people do that
to animals, abandon them ike they do.

Then, when in quite prayer or contemplation, it dawns on me,
how people treat other people! How China treats their populous,
how the US treats it's poor,(New Orleans for example), how bosses
treat their subordinates and how the children or our elderly, are
commodities to be tossed away, much like our animals at times.   
Gee, where the &*^% have I been? 

If people can hurt each other for the sake of money, ignorance,
misplaced loyalty, conquest, or just because they can, then why
should I expect anything else?  If people are ripping each other
off, hurting each other, hurting children or elderly, then the
animals hardly have a chance.

So why do I keep prodding and drudging on?  

Perhaps a masochist? NO.
I will talk later about my "cat of 9 tails" ahhh the memories, sigh!)

Perhaps an idealist? MMMMM..Perhaps.

Actually, it is my "FAITH". I once heard and had been taught that "FAITH"
is a gift.  It never really sunk in till lately. I never realized what
a great gift it really was. It is what gets' me up some mornings, gets
me going to continue to make right was is so wrong that I see, and it
is the very thing that gives me strength to stand up, VOICE and say
what is only fair, as I see it.

My faith helps keep me in check to not be so dang judgmental. It is
my faith that helps me forgive the unforgivable, to know there is a
bigger hand at work, when people act like asses, and the courts protect
the criminal act, more that setting things right. It is my faith that
helps me have the patience when others judge me, and hurt me. It is
faith, when a love has gone bad, or when I witness atrocities, no one
should witness.  It is my faith, which helps me through the dark times,
when I just don't understand.

So my faith kicks in, to help just 1 little life and make an animal's
existence a tad bit better, or ensure an old dog or cat dying, knows
it is loved and feels love before it dies. (One day I hope to expand
that to larger animals and horses.) THAT is what my faith enables in me,
so that I can keep on giving.

I had lost a beautiful, beloved pet, which died of cancer, but it was
my faith that told me it was for a reason, and his job was done. Little
did I know that latter the lessons taught to me from my beloved pet,
would be so very valuable in what my future had in store for me.

My faith is what helped me a few months after I had lost my beloved pet,
with my sister who was loosing her battle with cancer. 

My faith and my past experience, helped me look into my sister's eyes,
while my spiritual  sister was on her death bed suffering from brain cancer,
and tell her happily how special  she was, and how I WILL see her again. 
I knew in my heart I would be with her either here or after.

I was able let her know it was OK to go on. Yes, it ripped me in half,
but my faith walked me through.

So it is my FAITH, that gives me hope that making 1 difference will
continue to spread, ripple through this life and eventually, I will
understand there is a reason that we are all on this earth sucking air.

Now I do not want to get completely negative here. But seriously, if
it was not for the animal rescue I do, I would not have met the beautiful,
compassionate people I have.  I would have lost the love I have in my
heart, and would have turned so very, very cold.

So believe me, I am thankful for my FAITH, for the animals and the earth
I live in. I do my best to ensure I have a smaller and smaller "footprint" on
this earth so that it will continue to strive for our beautiful creation and
the creatures on it. YEP, including us.

So guess now I know why my friends and loved ones say I think too much!!

Keep the FAITH,
White-Tiger 4 God.