A Gift of Flowers
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This true story recounts the blessings that undid the author's grief surrounding the illness and death of her cat.
Renee Gravelle
Retired Learning Addict--Book Lover--Cat Lover--Dog Lover--Drinker of dry wine and stout beer--I am older than 25 but still feel that young. The older I get, the more I realize how much I have in common with everyone else. I prefer to write about the dramas of regular people, ordinary people--not the rich and famous. The unseen and unacknowledged lives sweated out and rejoiced over and agonized through are much more interesting. I gave up on my dream of being a professional baseball player long ago. But I still have dreams and every day that that's true is a blessed day.
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A Gift of Flowers - Renee Gravelle
A Gift of Flowers
By Renee Gravelle
Copyright 2021 Renee Gravelle
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Anyone who loves animals knows the powerful blessings pets bestow on our lives. Nobody knows for sure, though, if that blessedness continues past life.
It was a special cat who lived, shared the simple blessings of his affection, and then left this life, but not without offering the humans who loved him unexpected gifts of hope.
There are times when our spiritual beliefs become so mired in doubt that we are compelled to deny the existence of any realm beyond the material one. And yet, the most simple and elegant manifestations of the material are often catalysts for a resurgence of belief; hopeful signs are never more cherished than when we are aching deeply with grief.
I have heard stories about people asking God or angels for signs--actual, tangible signs--that their beloved is living happily in the spirit world. Perhaps the most elegant and simple sign ever requested is flowers. While I want to believe in the continuation of life through incarnations, my feet of clay--along with a family legacy of agnosticism--make me susceptible to doubt. My feeling after reading stories of people who prayed for flowers--and got them--was that these things happen to other people, not me.
Still, I suspected that sooner or later, I would have a chance to settle