TGIF
I get emails…
“Michael,
Sorry to hear of another sick cat, but to be honest, I’m tired of hearing about it.
Your grief over your cats seems too much to me…they are only animals.
We sometimes love pets and people too much…”
No, we don’t.
We can never love too much.
We can love in ways that are not beneficial to ourselves or the object of our love,but we can never love either pets or people too much.
In fact, you are never more Christ like then when you are acting in sacrificial love for another creature, be it a cat or a person.
Your grief at their loss will be in proportion to how much you loved them.
“Jesus wept.”
He wept because he loved someone who went the way of all flesh.
He didn’t love him too much.
“Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”
(John 15:13 ESV)
He loved him enough to give His all to save him.
In fact, He had a radical plan to save all of us and renew the whole creation.
“To Jesus@savior.com
I know you love people,but don’t you think this cross thing is a little extreme?
Besides, they’re all sinners…”
My problem isn’t that I love too much, it’s that I love too little.
I tend to only love those people and creatures that love me back…
Loving those people and pets that God gives me…loving them “too much”… is practice to learn how to love those people who don’t love me at all.
It’s practice to learn how to love as Jesus loves…and pay the price for doing so in a fallen world.
So, I’ll love too much and grieve too much and do so because I’m following the example of the Lord.
Someday, love and grief will be no longer connected because He acted in greater love than I can conceive of.
Miss Kitty’s better today…
Make your own application…
Quoting Dr. Pol, “cats are tough little animaks” – i pray Miss Kitty is too
She is…
My daughter’s two horses saved her life when a rogue horse attacked her, intent on pounding her into the ground, as she was walking across a large pasture. Her two peeled off from the herd, came thundering across the field to bite and kick and drive away the horse attacking my daughter. Do i love those two horses? Does God approve?
Proverbs 12:10
The righteous care for the needs of their animals, but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel.
Tired of hearing about it? Then don’t read it. Jeez!
We put our little dog Lola to sleep yesterday & my husband, son and I cried like babies.
There is a hole in our heats today.
I believe Jesus knows how much we love our creatures and cares. He gives us hearts to love like this.
The stories of your cats are precious to me and I believe we will be reunited with them someday. My late father felt this same way as you do Michael.
So happy Miss Kitty is doing better!
pslady,
Our heart and prayers are with you, my friend…
Michael,
I hope you continue to post about your cats.
You can tell a lot about a person who cares for and loves animals.
You have a good heart.
I find it’s much easier to love animals than it is to love humans. Because . . . . well, . . . . humans.
Parker,
No worries…I find a connection with God through my furry friends.
I also find them easier to love…humans are here mainly to aid in my sanctification… 🙂