Ellie:

24th December 2004

In Memory of little one. My precious Ellie. 1st September 2003 – 3rd December 2004

1st September 2003 – 3rd December 2004

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Dear Jilly,

This is a beautiful tribute to your precious little Ellie. Although her life was too short, you filled each of her days with love.

I think starting a thread and adding to it as time passes makes a wonderful tribute for our little furbabies who have gone to the bridge. I look forward to reading more about Ellie in the future.

Love,
Kathleen

Such a sweet tribute to Ellie! It's obvious that you loved each other so very much. I have no doubt that she thought her mommy was the best mommy in the world, and you were. Ellie was such a beautiful little girl too.
Love,
Marcia

Dear Jilly:

I sincerely loved your beautiful tribute to your dear, precious Ellie !!! She was such an adorable, sweet, baby girl.........and, she was taken from this earth much too quickly..
For that, I am terribly sorry!!

It really sounded as if you and she had the most wonderful life together.....Your hours & days were filled to the brim doing everything with one another.......
That's what makes life so wonderfully special......



I loved this quote from your Memorial to Ellie.......... I can identify with that sooooo very much!!! That
lovely, sweet look of real curiosity in our furkitties eyes on trying to hold a pencil..... Reading that just
melted my heart!!!

God Bless You Jilly!!! You are a wonderful, caring, sensitive, super-sweet person.........and, I know that you have helped sooooooo many people here at Lightning-Strike.....

It might not be the time now...........but, I really hope that perhaps you will get another cat....(or two), maybe
one day, Jilly!!!
You have soooooo much love to give.....

If it is at all feasibile.........you could foster a pregnant mommy cat about to give birth, and take care of them for six weeks.............until they were all ready to be adopted out..... Perhaps one day that will be something to think about.

For now.........Goodnight & God Bless to you, my friend....

Love, Denise

Dear Jilly,

That was a beautiful tribute to your sweet Ellie. Although your time together was too short, you made her life so happy and she left you with wonderful memories.

Love,
Lynn

She was SOOOO cute Jilly! You gave her such a great life. I loved your memorial and I wish you peace and love on your journey to healing.

My dear friends

Thank you so much ... reading your loving words means so much to me.

Bless you all.

with love
jilly

For Ellie

My heart is in the frost, little one, for thou hast left me,
and gone to the land where walks already thy mother and all thy kin.
Thou hast left me alone to mourn thee, my little girl,
and I will not be comforted.

One short year thou dwelt with me, and I loved thee always,
I knew no other like unto thee - forever will thy place be empty.
Forever wilt thy presence be missed, and always will there be sadness
when thoughts of my loss do come.

I have seen thee, my little one, in a dream;
Thou wast in a place I knew not; a field, with golden grass -
Thou looked at me, thy eyes bright, thy face happy, but asking
“Why dost thou not follow me?”

Thou disappeared into the grass, and I have seen thee not again.
Forgive me, little one, for thy last hours, that I was not there -
Forgive me that you met death in the arms of strangers.
That grieveth me so I cannot tell thee, but I could not do otherwise -
Know that had I believed you so close to harm I would have been with thee.

Thou wast with me during the times that tried heart and soul,
but thou didst not live to see the sun rise upon us.
Would that you could be with us now that the tide is finally turning!
I miss thee with each day, and look to your haunts, and hope to find you.

Oh, how I pray you woke to find yourself in the arms of the Maker!
I hope that now He rubs your soft ears as I once did!
I pray that one day we shall be together again
If it be His infinite will.

Old age will finally dim both sight and mind,
but memory of thee will last throughout -
I pray God of His infinite mercies to let me see you again
when it is my turn to cross the border.

Then know, my beloved, that truly thou wilt not be forgotten -
Truly, you live on in heart and mind.
Thy tiny body wilt be buried in the plot where I shall one day rest
In the hope that on a brighter day we will all be together again forever.


<span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>Richard.Eikenburg ( names and 2 words changed)



Ellie: The Hands of Time

My heart has lost its warmth, little girl,
Since that moment when you left me.
The hands of time stand still for me now
And the clocks no longer tick.

My world revolves in a far away place
And I am betwixt earth and heaven.
I am between minute and hour,
Entombed in a timeless eternity of missing.

Your tiny body warm and soft
No longer pulses in the cycle of life
Your soft pads no longer dab my face in sweet caress
Nor tread their path through bluebell bracken.

Could I but turn those hands to yesteryear
And feel those hours and days dissolve away
And feel that moment once again,
When I held you soft and warm against my heart.


<span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>Jilly</span>


Lord, Lend Me a Kitty

I will lend to you awhile, a Kitty, the good Lord said,
For you to love her while she lives, and mourn her when she's dead.
Maybe for twelve or fourteen years, or maybe two or three.
But will you, 'till I call her back, take care of her for me?

She'll bring her charms to gladden you, and should her stay be brief,
You'll always have her memories as solace for your grief.
I cannot promise she will stay, since all from earth return,
But there are lessons taught below I want this Kitty to learn.

I've looked the whole world over in search of teachers true,
And from the folk that crowd life's land, I have chosen you.
Now will you give her all your love, nor think the labour vain,
Nor hate me when I come to take, your Kitty back again?

I fancied that I heard you say: Dear Lord, Thy Will Be Done,
For all the joys this Kitty brings, the risk of grief we'll run.
We'll shelter her with tenderness; we'll love her while we may,
And for the happiness we've known, forever grateful stay.

But should you call her back, Lord, much sooner than we'd planned,
We'll brave the bitter grief that comes, and try to understand.
If, by our love, we've managed, your wishes to achieve,
The memory of the her, we loved, will help us while we grieve.

And when our faithful bundle departs this world of strife,
We'll fall down on our knees with thanks, Lord, that you let her grace our life.


<span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>Author unknown</span></span>

My sweet Ellie

Ellie Sleeping

Just a little baby