The Laughing Wolf

The Gift: My Stalker

The Gift: My Stalker

Earlier, I wrote about giving gifts and touched on the greatest gift of all: love. It is the best gift to give or to get, but it can be uncomfortable. A stalker I have acquired have brought it home to me.

Ginger, a local barn/feral cat, has decided I am wonderful. She twines about my feet and legs, hides in my bushes and greets me when I go out, and has even taken to waiting out on my back deck for me. I come home smelling of wolves, and still she loves me. It is an offering of love that makes me uncomfortable, and not just because I am allergic to cats.

When someone offers love like this, it makes us all the more aware of our own shortcomings. Let's face it, we know we don't deserve it. We are not worthy of it.

No one is. That's the beauty of the gift, we get it not by earning, but simply by being. We get it not because we deserve it, but because another feels we merit it. It is the ultimate gift, and when it comes into our lives, we are very much the richer for accepting that gift.

Set aside your problems and hang-ups, and take the gift freely given. For true love is given without conditions or demands.

LW