“Matika’s Message”

Kazuko Tao

In communicating with deceased animals, they quite often tell their person(s) that they continue to live on in that person’s heart.  The human companion can connect with their deceased animal by being in touch with their own heart space. I have always embraced this concept as an incredibly healing way to bridge the physical and spiritual existences.  It affirms no one ever dies and we all continue to exist.

An opportunity presented to speak with Matika, an animal who went missing and whose person suspected that he had passed on.  Matika talked about continuing to live in his person’s heart, and he further discussed what “living in his person’s heart” meant.  Before this, I had never visualized spirits living in our hearts quite the way Matika explained, yet it made a significant difference in my understanding of this concept.  Through Matika’s explanation, I was fully able to feel the meaning of “live in the heart.” 

The following is a portion of my communication with Matika.  He encouraged his person to be in her heart space, rather than focused in the mind, as important to her overall well-being.  (Click "Read more" to continue.)

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2007-09-28

This is beautiful!

 Just a Dog

By Richard A. Biby

From time to time, people tell me, “Lighten up, it’s just a dog,” or“that’s a lot of money for just a dog.”  They don’t understand the distance traveled, the time spent, or the costs involved for “just a dog.”

Some of my proudest moments have come about with “just a dog.”  Many hours have passed and my only company was “just a dog,” but I did not once feel slighted.

Some of my saddest moments have been brought about by “just a dog,” and in those days of darkness, the gentle touch of “just a dog” gave me comfort and reason to overcome the day.

If you, too, think it’s “just a dog,” then you will probably understand phrases like “just a friend,” “just a sunrise,” or “just a promise.”  “Just a dog” brings into my life the very essence of friendship, trust and pure unbridled joy.  “Just a dog” brings out the compassion and patience that make me a better person.

 Because of “just a dog” I will rise early, take long walks and look longingly to the future.  So for me and folks like me, it’s not “just a dog” but an embodiment of all the hopes and dreams of the future, the fond memories of the past, and the pure joy of the moment. “Just a dog” brings out what’s good in me and diverts my thoughts away from myself and worries of the day.

 I hope that someday they can understand that it’s not “just a dog”, but the thing that gives me humanity and keeps me from being “just a human.”

 So the next time you hear the phrase “just a dog,” just smile, because they “just don’t understand.”

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