Bat the Cat, a True Story

Easter came early the year that my family purchased and moved into the house next door. In order to share the news with all our relatives and friends, we posed for a picture in front our new home. A challenge for my father, through trial and error he set up the camera to included all of us and the house in the background. Over and over again my father adjusted the camera, pressed the button, and ran back to join the family before the flash went off. The long photo session was decided complete with an almost perfect picture, and I ran off to begin the favorite game of chasing Bat the cat. My whole family began yelling at me to leave the cat alone. I stopped, turned and wondered about why they all said that. I reached out from within myself and moved upward. This was my way of calling upon my Guide.


This is one of those moments while in a conversation people will get that glazed over expression. It’s like they are thinking you are special alright, you’ve been touched by the crazy stick. How is it that when people speak of experiential spirituality others shut down, like how could God exist out side of a church or a book. Funny isn’t it until something major in your life happens like a horrible illness and you actually feel the magic, feel the existence of something beyond yourselves. Well, here I am telling you that we are never alone. We are always surrounded, protected and loved. Literally not just figuratively like in a fairy tale. All of our thoughts, intentions, and actions are constantly being observed and recorded. They all actually matter, you matter. Part of this whole process includes your own Guide some people have called them Guardian Angels. Here’s an analogy, you have been offered an exciting adventure, a journey to a new to you place. Along with this trip, your very own Guide has been provided free of charge. Your Guide will show you the places of interest for you, your highest path for soul growth and development but you do not have to listen to their wise council, there’s free will of course. This very kind, patient, and unpaid Guide follows along side of you traveling with you through your selfish thoughts and actions encouraging them ever higher, to move beyond the self. Which do you choose the Guided or unguided journey?


So, we all have Guides and for some reason I was gifted with the ability to see and hear them clearly as you might see and chat with a family member or work associate. Now, have you ever had gifts that you did not fully appreciate and maybe even threw them away? Well, I too have been guilty of not using my gifts usually due to not fully understanding their importance, but hopefully some of my experiences and stories will help you reestablish your relationship to your Guide and friend.


If you choose to continue reading either in faith, suspended disbelief or out of the need to complete the reading of something from beginning to end, you are all invited.


So, I reached up to and asked my Guide, why is that they all get so upset when I chase the cat? Don’t they know that life is just an illusion and that you can never be hurt of harmed in any way? My Guide responded, well Annie what they were trying to teach you is that once you’ve been down here for a while, the illusion becomes real. Oh, I breathed and in a split second of discovery was full of agony to realize that the cat must think that I’m really trying to hurt him. Ashamed and devastated to learn that I was causing Bat the cat harm, I attempted to reach Bat and apologize. As brave a cat Bat was with the neighborhood cats, he never fully trusted me and he kept his distance. Days turned into weeks and months then Bat the cat got into another fight while recovering from one. He already had front legs fully wrapped in bandages. Why my parents let him out of the house I’ll never know, but my parents took the doubly injured cat back to the vet’s office and returned without him. My parents told me that Bat had run away probably to get away from me and that I should have been nicer to him. Devastated, I asked my Guide if he knew where Bat was and if he was safe. My Guide gave a careful and guarded response but he said yes that he knew where Bat was and that yes he was safe. He assured me that I did not need to worry. Please tell him I am sorry if I hurt him and that if he wanted to come back that I would be even nicer to him. My Guide assured me that I had been much kinder to Bat once I understood how he had been feeling. Well, I asked, why won’t he come back home. My Guide explained that Bat could not come back and that he had not run away. He didn’t, I exclaimed. Well then where did he go? I asked. My Guide took a moment then said that Bat was fine because he was there with them. Bat was on the other side. I asked completely shocked. It was such a surprise that my parents would lie to me while they blamed me for his disappearance. Completely traumatized, I realized that they must have ended his life. My Guide explained that my father had honestly thought that he was doing the right thing in having them ‘put Bat to sleep’. I became enraged. They killed him, that’s not their right. Doesn’t he realize how hard it is to get a lifetime? The right life time that is meant exactly for us?


The truth is that no. So many of us can not nor do not realize how truly special our lifetimes down here are. We waste time walking in a dream like state through our daily experiences missing out on those real opportunities to connect.


While as an adult, I too had to make that terrible decision to end the suffering of a beloved cat whose life we had only mistakenly extended. A choice I would much prefer to be left in the hands of God.