This was holy week, for Christians and Jews.  The energy of this week was at work on many levels.  In the midst of church going, fasting, cooking, gathering and praying little miracles were happening.  Those little miracles are the true resurrection and the light.  Reminders that there is something bigger at work…always.

Little Mason.  He’s the slow one of the three dogs my friend Marlo mothers.  I don’t want to say she owns them because truth be told they actually own her.  They are children in the truest sense of the word.

Wake up one morning, and I mean early morning, to little Mason having a…something…seizure.  Off to the Animal Hospital just minutes away and they can’t seem to find anything wrong.  Take him home and a good night’s sleep turns into another…something….seizure in the later morning.  Off they go again and this time she leaves him.  It’s hard to leave a dog-child at the hospital.  A call comes to get permission to do an MRI and spinal tap.  Of course she says.  The day goes by and finally the results are…something…not all that good.  The spinal cord is being crushed by…something…the blood to his brain is…something.  And on and on in medical speak that could spin your head around.  What to do?  If we do nothing, he will live a fragile life that will degenerate into a fateful decision eventually.

Is there a chance for him, little Mason?  Say what you want about soon to be ex-husbands sometimes they react exactly the way they once would have…in a good way. There is history and shared values from all the good years.  There are means that perhaps you don’t have and a generosity born of…something.   So several hours later and many thousands of dollars later little Mason is better…much better…like not even a little slow now better.  So much better that the doctor wants to write him up in the veterinary journal and follow his progress better.

Praying that God gives you what you need can often lead you to make decisions that will do just that, give you what you need.  Thankfully Mason will be fine.  His siblings, especially Bella, will have him back in a way they’ve never known.  A painful divorce may be imminent but a reliable friendship may emerge.  And a dog mother knows like she knows that her decision was helped by her faith in doing what was needed through a gift from God.

Buona Pasqua