Zoey -
Although it's only been 48 short hours since we sent you off in peace, I know it is now time to let you go so you can cross the rainbow bridge. I know that by holding back you cannot cross and I love you too much for you to stay...I owe you that. I'm sorry I could not fix what was wrong with you. I'll forever feel as though I could have done more, but I know sometimes whatever we are able to do has to be enough and then we must let you go...and it was and we did. I'm sorry we only had 8 years, but I'm so thankful that for those years you were on this side of the bridge that you spent them with us and not someone else. Although you were only with us for 8 years, I know the day we rescued you that you'd have the best home possible...and you did. What I didn't know (until you were gone) was how much you added to our lives. You were the first addition to our loving home, and you taught Loren and I how caring and sharing for someone other than ourselves was important in this life....you taught us what it meant for someone to need us in order to live...you inspired us to go adopt your buddy Carlie who now misses you as we do.....you showed me how weak I can be when you got sick, and how strong I had to be in order to let you go. In many ways, you (and Carlie) helped prepare me to be a parent to my (human) children and I promise you that I will be a better father to my two daughters because I first learned to care for you....I owe you that and I promise you Zoey I will not let you or them down.
A piece of me needs to pass to the other side with you in order for me to move on...that piece of me is suffering terribly but I want you to take it with you so that I can stop crying and be at peace. Hold on to that piece of me and care for it until we are united again one day.
Although it's only been 48 short hours since we sent you off in peace, I know it is now time to let you go so you can cross the rainbow bridge. I know that by holding back you cannot cross and I love you too much for you to stay...I owe you that. I'm sorry I could not fix what was wrong with you. I'll forever feel as though I could have done more, but I know sometimes whatever we are able to do has to be enough and then we must let you go...and it was and we did. I'm sorry we only had 8 years, but I'm so thankful that for those years you were on this side of the bridge that you spent them with us and not someone else. Although you were only with us for 8 years, I know the day we rescued you that you'd have the best home possible...and you did. What I didn't know (until you were gone) was how much you added to our lives. You were the first addition to our loving home, and you taught Loren and I how caring and sharing for someone other than ourselves was important in this life....you taught us what it meant for someone to need us in order to live...you inspired us to go adopt your buddy Carlie who now misses you as we do.....you showed me how weak I can be when you got sick, and how strong I had to be in order to let you go. In many ways, you (and Carlie) helped prepare me to be a parent to my (human) children and I promise you that I will be a better father to my two daughters because I first learned to care for you....I owe you that and I promise you Zoey I will not let you or them down.
A piece of me needs to pass to the other side with you in order for me to move on...that piece of me is suffering terribly but I want you to take it with you so that I can stop crying and be at peace. Hold on to that piece of me and care for it until we are united again one day.
