Love, love love this!
Feeling the sunshine, bringing it within and sharing it with others is by far one of the grandest ways of sharing any of us can do. ????☀️☀️☀️
@michele, you are a tower of strength. I soaked up every word your wrote to Elaine. When you comfort people here in your powerful way, it helps us all.
@elaineg, I am proud of you for living a good life and doing no harm. I love that you contributed to the world by supplying the means for people to do arts and crafts. For many years I got so much joy from arts and crafts shops. I would wander around these shops for hours imagining what I'd make. You also helped animals. There is no higher calling than that. I think it is notable that you have chosen to spend your life bringing joy to others even as you have suffered.
As for the incredible power of helping animals, the unseen good that it does, and the energy of love it creates, I want to tell you about someone I loved who helped animals. MaryJane came to live with us when I was little to babysit for a few weeks. We fell in love with her so, lacking a place to live, she stayed with us permanently.
MaryJane never had any money because she spent every cent on animals. She lived with us in exchange for a bit of housework and some occasional babysitting. She had a day job in the city working as a bookkeeper in a greasy broken-down bodyshop.
MaryJane spent all of her money on helping animals. People around Boston would bring her stray cats and she'd be sure to get them to a vet for shots, health care, spaying and adoption. She never owned her own home and later when my parents died and our family had scattered, she moved into public housing, still working and giving every cent to the animals.
One day I was driving down the street where that greasy body shop had been and where MaryJane had worked all those years as a bookkeeper, while really she was an animal savior. In its place was a three story brand new sparkling animal hospital and shelter! The way I saw it, MaryJane's efforts had created an energy field of animal caring until someone saw that it was the perfect location for the hospital and shelter.
Money is energy, so how you use it matters. And you have used it, as did MaryJane, for the highest good.
Your brother made his money as an executive in fossil fuels, an industry that is causing untold suffering in this world. Because the oil industry executives first understood in the 1970's the damage that burning fossil fuels was doing, industry executives bear a lot of responsibility for hiding the truth from people and advancing that business and reaping blood money.
I do not envy or admire anyone whose money comes from harming others. I understand and sympathize with those who can't live any other way. I also realize that we are all so interconnected on this planet that all of us in some way play a role in the harm and the good that comes to this world.
But your brother is fortunate that he helped you, who in turn have helped the helpless ones. His energy got to do good by giving money to you.
Thank all of you for your good thoughts. I always feel better when I come here and tell you things, I can not tell other people. Thank you again.
You are so loved!
And as Jeanne has so wonderfully shared with her words and stories you are loved by many here in our world, no doubt by your clients over those hard working but doing what you loved creatively and giving to your community years and the cat kingdom as well.
Hmmm, wondering if you have a little Egyptian past life in you with all your love of cats. Hmmm...wonder if I do too. I've always fed strays, too. It's such a wonderful giving as well as receiving back once again! We may not worship them but we sure love and care for them!
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Bless you Jeanne for your sweet words to me and lovely response to Elaine. You took up where I left off and enriched everything so much.
@michele-b-here-in-the-forum
i have really been touched by your posts today and it’s helped me look at my own grievances and inequities in my family in a different way. If you can let those grievances and injustices go, you are freer to see the good in others, to see their soul selves and connect on a deeper level. I’ve seen people harbor grievances and resentments their whole lives and it not only damages their relationships, it damages and corrupts their own Inner spirit.
Elaine, thank you for sharing with us and may you be blessed by your love and caring for animals. Michelle, you are an angel among us. Much love to you.
My turn - I need some healing light for my cat Arlo. He's an 11 year old marmalade, my "good boy".
He developed a bump on his head a couple of weeks ago, the vet said maybe an abscess, so we started him on antibiotics last week. He was doing ok, but the lump kept growing.
Last night at bedtime, he couldn't hold his head up, his eyes got cloudy and he lost bowel control. I rushed him to our local vet ER, thinking maybe a stroke.
Luckily, not a stroke, but they are deciding between cancer and cryptococcus (which is a fungal infection from spores here in SoCal, in humans it's called valley fever). They found more nodules on his lungs.
Our usual vet is not working today, so I left her an urgent message. The ER doc called to say that while Arlo is still "very neurological", he's eating a bit and in good spirits.
I'm not ready to lose him yet, he's a housecat and I figured I'd have 5-8 more years with him at least, as aside from being overweight he's in good health (til now anyway).
Please send him some healing, much appreciated!
Hi laura-f,
I will send loving, healing energy to your sweet boy. Please let us know how he is doing. Very, very hard. Know that I am thinking of you..and him.
Hey Laura, i had a similar thing happen to one of my cats, who is the same age as yours. I eventually switched her to a grain-free diet, and the symptoms gradually all went away. She is fine now. I really hope it is something simple like that for Arlo. Peace and love to you both.
I think of Arlo and he makes me smile. I can feel his sweetness. I'm sending your precious fur baby healing energy and both of you lots of love.