NOTE: The following was written one of the times Gingie was sick, four days before she died. — Gloria
Bev to Ginger:
Dear Ginger, I am thinking of you and asking the heavenly healers to shine their love and healing energy upon you. I ask you to breathe it in deeply. I send you all my love, you little sweetheart.
In helping my kitty Oliver with his allergy problems the last two weeks, I have come to have a much deeper understanding of animals as our healers. I know that you are helping Lauren and Gloria to grow in God's love. I know that, as they care for you, they are becoming closer to God, just as you are. It is so beautiful.
Please rejoice in all of the love that is pouring your way. I love you, little one.
NOTE: The following was written after Ginger had gotten better again. — Gloria
Gloria to God:
Dear God, I want to thank You for having Ginger feel better. When she was feeling so sick, she seemed to look for a corner to die in and would not eat or anything. Then she roused a little and ate a little hamburg from my hand. But then she could hardly walk. She would fall over, and she seemed blind.
But by evening, she was snuggling, and that was a wonderful reprieve. I couldn't have imagined that I would have that sweetness with her again.
This morning she is perkier yet! She tests negative for sugar! She is out in the yard, and she and Sunshine have dug up old bones and are having a wonderful time.
NOTE: That night Ginger became quite ill again. She died early the next morning, March 24. — Gloria
Gloria:
Dear God, I am grieving as if I didn't know You and all You have taught me.
God:
Say everything you want.
Gloria:
I can hardly bear it. It is more than I can bear, yet…
This was my first direct experience with "the remains". That is an apt expression because that is all her body was. It sure wasn't her. In fact, her little body that I loved so dearly and that gave me such comfort was awful without her in it. It was worse than nothing, God. I knew for sure then that it wasn't her little body that had given me so much comfort. It was her little soul.
Then, dear God, I felt her around me, and she was free and happy and nothing had happened to our love for each other except she was free. Yet I grieve.
I also realized that she was out of the physical fray. No more shots for her. No more feeling sick. And it was her very freedom from the restriction of her body that I was bemoaning. I cry because I can't take care of her body anymore, as if her body was her. I bemoan what had freed her. How selfish. But it still hurts. I can hardly bear it.
Forgive me for talking so much here. I want to hear what You have to say, and I'm almost ready, but one more thing.
Karen called me. She said many profound loving things. One of the most eye-opening was when she said: dealing with loss is the same as dealing with the eternal.
God:
This is what I mean when I say there is no loss. What you perceive as loss is a bigger horizon. It is like a door opening up. Only you think the door closes you out. What you perceive as loss is a rainbow from the physical world to the world of spirit. The rainbow shows you the way. It leads you closer to Heaven.
Ginger taught you pure love, did she not? Is that not what you experienced together? Do you really think that what existed between you would cease to exist because she is free? Do you think she would choose to be away from you because she no longer needs a leash? She would not leave you, Gloria, and she has not. Love doesn't leave love. Love stays. Love moves in ever bigger circles. The body death of Ginger holds the message: There is no death.
The physical is not more important than the spiritual. It never was. The physical is nothing without the spirit that moves it. Spirit doesn't need the physical. Physical needs spirit.
Another way to say the same thing is: there is no physical. There never was. The physical does not exist. All is light. Some of that light, packaged, you call physical.
So much trouble of the world comes from believing in the physical. Loving the physical and believing in it are not the same. Love the physical, but don't worship it. Whatever the physical expression of love, it is expression of spirit. The physical expresses spirit. The physical is like the magician's cloak behind which something grand is hidden. The cloak is not the delight. What is behind the cloak is the delight.
Jesus was like a rainbow between earth and Heaven. His heart and vision connected earth and Heaven. The Christ light does that still.
You are used to thinking of a rainbow as an arch, but a rainbow is actually a circle. The circle of light extends through the earth. You see rainbow only in the light of the air. You don't see it in the density of earth, but it is there. Remember that a rainbow is a circle that connects earth to Heaven. You and I are One. Earth and Heaven are One also.
No matter how large a circle is, it is, nevertheless, one circle. One embrace.
How much Ginger has taught you. How much she will continue to teach you. She has taught you to look at the heart of the matter. The heart of the matter is light, is love. Anything but the heart of the matter is extraneous, as you discovered her little body was. You thought you loved her body. Her body emblemized her spirit and her love, but the body was not her spirit and it was not her love. Her body, beloved in life, was nothing in death. This is the reminder that death of the body makes. It tells you where to look.
All that happens has great purpose. Ginger had great purpose. (She has still.) She was a messenger from Me to you. She did her job well. It was not her eleven-pound body that gave you comfort. That was a myth you believed in for a while. All the time, her soul gave you comfort. Ginger's spirit is eternal. All spirit is eternal. All of life is to remind you of the eternal.
My children would not take death so hard except that they believe so much in the description of love called the body. Believe in the love.