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Why does the loss of a pet hurt so much? For many of us, a pet is not “just a dog” or “just a cat,” but rather a beloved member of our family, bringing companionship, fun, and joy to our lives. A pet can add structure to your day, keep you active and social, help you to overcome setbacks and challenges in life, and even provide a sense of meaning or purpose. So, when a beloved pet dies, it’s normal to feel a painful sense of grief and loss.
While we all respond to loss differently, the level of grief you experience will often depend on factors such as your age and personality, the age of your pet, and the circumstances of their death. Generally, the more significant your pet was to you, the more intense the emotional pain you’ll feel.
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From Healing After Loss - Loneliness is one of the afflictions of grief. We miss the one who has died, but that’s not all. We miss the world the way it used to be, without this loss that shadows our every step. We miss our image of the future with this loved one in it. We feel alone because so much of our life right now is internal—the agonizing questions, the turmoil. Who can share that with us? We feel separated from the rest of the world. We walk along the street and the people we pass seem carefree and unburdened. Of course that isn’t so, but when our grief is so consuming, other people seem to be from an alien land. Of course our families and friends are close, but even they cannot know the depths of our grief. To whom to turn? It will help immeasurably if we can think of the Divine Presence, alive in us and in all of creation. A presence that stabilizes us, compassionately holds us, rides on our breath, brings us peace. Try it. Close your eyes and become familiar with this presence within you!

As we come up on Mother's Day, amidst all of the festivities, be mindful that there are some that are facing their 1st (or yet another) Mother's Day without their Mother or Child. Go ahead and let them know that you are thinking of them. I guarantee it won't be your words that bring it up for them. They are already thinking of and missing their loved one. They will be grateful that you are too.

Similar to those missing pieces of a puzzle. Some great thoughts from Healing After Loss -
Almost all of us have some “unfinished business” with a loved one who has died—hurts that never were resolved, questions we never got answers to, things we would like to have said but never did. It is easy to brood over these, to torture ourselves with “if only” yearnings to somehow make it right. Two things may help free us from these broodings. One is to realize the futility of such self-torture and decide not to give it hospitality. A second is to honor the possibility that whatever life exists beyond death, surely it is more compassionate, more understanding, more forgiving than we experience on our human plane; and that our loved one is aware of our dilemma, and all our unresolved questions are absorbed into the light of a higher truth.
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When your burden is heaviest, you can always lighten a little some other burden. At the times when you cannot see God, there is still open to you this sacred possibility, to show God; for it is the love and kindness of human hearts through which the divine reality comes home to men, whether they name it or not. Let this thought, then, stay with you: there may be times when you cannot find help, but there is no time when you cannot give help.
—GEORGE S. MERRIAM