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Message From Max
By J. D. Ellis
My name is Max
and I have a little something Id like to whisper in your ear. I know that you humans
lead busy lives. Some have to work, some have children to raise. It always seems like you
are running here and there, often much too fast, often never noticing the truly grand
things in life. Look down at me now, while you sit there at your computer. See the way my
dark brown eyes look at yours? They are slightly cloudy now, that comes with age. The grey
hairs are beginning to ring my soft muzzle. You smile at me; I see love in your eyes. What
do you see in mine?
Do you see a spirit, a soul inside who loves you as no other could in the world? A spirit
that would forgive all trespasses of prior wrong doing for just a simple moment of your
time? That is all I ask. To slow down if even for a few minutes to be with me.So many
times you have been saddened by the words you read on that screen, of others of my kind,
passing. Sometimes we die young and oh so quickly, sometimes so suddenly it wrenches your
heart out of your throat. Sometimes we age so slowly before your eyes that you do not even
seem to know, until the very end, when we look at you with grizzled muzzles and cataract
clouded eyes. Still the love is always there, even when we take that long sleep, to run
free in distant lands.
I may not be here tomorrow; I may not be here next week. Someday you will shed the waters
from your eyes, that humans have when deep grief fills their souls, and you will be angry
at yourself that you did not have just One more day with me. Because I love
you so, your sorrow touches my spirit and grieves me. We have now, together. So come, sit
down here next to me on the floor. And look deep into my eyes. What do you see? If you
look hard and deep enough we will talk, you and I, heart to heart. Come to me not as
alpha or as a trainer or even a Mom or Dad, come to me
as a living soul and stroke my fur and let us look deep into one anothers eyes, and
talk. I may tell you something about the fun of chasing a tennis ball, or I may tell you
something profound about myself, or even life in general. You decided to have me in your
life (I hope) because you wanted a soul to share just such things with.
Someone very different from you, and here I am. I am a dog, but I am alive. I feel
emotion, I feel physical senses, and I can revel in the differences of our spirits and
souls. I do not think of you as a Dog on two feet I know what you are.
You are human, in all your quirkiness, and I love you still.Now, come sit with me, on the
floor. Enter my world, and let time slow down if even for only 15 minutes. Look deep in my
eyes, and whisper to my ears. Speak with your heart, with your joy and I will know your
true self. We may not have tomorrow, and life is oh so very short.
Love, Max (on behalf of all canines everywhere)
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