Yesterday morning I spotted a cardinal in some bushes in the alley behind my house. I saw it while on my morning walk with Blade, my dog. I didn't think much of it yesterday, but this morning the cardinal was now squawking at me. Let me add, it was REALLY squawking, so much it caught my attention right away. They say cardinals are angels. They say a cardinal is a representative of a loved one who has passed. When you see one, it means they are visiting you. I immediately thought of a friend of mine - Miriam - she loved cardinals, she passed a few years ago and then of thought of Shirley, another friend who passed a little over a year ago and suddenly I had a hole in heart from the loss of several friends over the years.
It's inevitable, as we get older, we start to loose friends and family.
As I continued walking, I was really sad, but then I thought of all the good things these friends brought to my life and I became filled with love; and suddenly the hole in my heart was filled.
Death happens, it will happen to me one day. But this morning I realized that life is full of love. Loving memories, love of friends and family, the love of my dog and I would say the cat, but cats, I not so sure about. The world doesn't need love, it has it - you just have to recognize it and share what you have with everyone else. So that one day, when you depart this life to go on to the next one that you don't leave holes, but instead you leave love.
and with that it is another day in Catasauqua.
