~ A Message From Max ~



 
My name is Max and I have a little something I'd 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 gray 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 another's 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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