I never thought a spiritual message for the healing I’ve been going through would come from my cat Driggs, but I honestly think one has.
Driggs was injured near the end of September during a routine grooming appointment. At first, neither my partner nor I even knew she had sustained an injury from it. But during the week afterwards we began noticing her constantly lick a certain area of her underbelly. Upon closer inspection, it was then we noticed the raw razor-burned area.
Sadly, she had no idea that her own innate attempts at self-care was only making matters worse and aggravating the entire wounded area. To prevent this from happening any further, we ended up getting one of those kitty cones that go around a cat’s head, as well as an anti-itch powder to put on twice a day. Initially, she was quite angry, running around the house bumping her head into everything and doing her best to rip the cone off to no avail. Eventually she did come to acceptance of the matter, albeit in some constant level of depression. Since then, the wound has mostly healed and the small scabs remaining are about to fall away. And within a short time, her cone will be taken off and life will return to normal for her. While she may not know that at the present moment, the fact remains that her wounds are healing and her joy is about to return. It’s only that for a time, her healing and her life had to be taken out of her control.
I feel that this resembles so much of the healing my Higher Power has been taking me through these last few years. On some level, I truly believe I had my own cone put on me when this all began all those years ago, because every attempt I kept making at self-care back then was only leading me into deeper pain and misery. As for the anti-itch powder, well my Higher Power has definitely provided me various things along the way to help ease my healing process using modalities such as acupuncture, reiki, polarity, and kinesiology. There is so many days that I too feel a ton of depression about the cone that’s on me, but in all reality, I somehow know it’s only temporary, just like it is for Driggs.
So while I know that Driggs wounds are going to fully heal and life will return to normal for her in a short bit, I feel it’s safe to say that my Higher Power knows the same of mine as well. While mine might have taken far longer than a razor-burned underbelly to heal, the reality is that they will completely mend, as long as I trust that the cone I have on me is there for my protection.
I think I just needed a reminder of this from my cat to see that sometimes our own attempts at self-care aren’t necessarily the best. And instead, maybe the solution that’s far better is to trust in the care of our Guardian who knows exactly how to safely get our wounds to fully heal. I believe my Higher Power is precisely doing that with me right now and soon my own cone will be gone too. And when that days arrives, I will without a doubt be bouncing around again with joy just like I know my cat will be when hers is gone as well.
Peace, love, light, and joy,
Andrew Arthur Dawson