Making Peace With Nature’s Plan

Nature’s plan is perfect, whether we understand it, or not. I have been distraught by this much of my life. I have also over-thought it at times, especially when I see animals suffering in nature, or the damage sometimes done to fauna and flora by raging wildfires, floods, and other natural forces.

I often ask myself what the lesson is in all of this for me? Why am I sometimes so profoundly upset by the way nature take its natural course? Apart from humanity’s awful neglect, exploitation and abuse of animals and natural resources, I have often also questioned nature itself, and how animals can be so cruel in their treatment of one another – and not always just for the sake of survival.

I have looked into the subject for some kind of resolution or understanding as to why nature is designed this way. The teachings of Emmanuel, as channeled by Pat Rhodegast, insist that nature’s plan is perfect and that each creature chose the role of predator or victim for the experience it would bring them in their own evolution process.

The Amazing Afterlife of Animals by Karen Anderson suggests that an animal will never depart this world before its their time to go, and that when it is their time to leave, they often prefer to be alone. They wander off and find a secluded place to end their lifespan naturally. They may even be chased away by other members of the herd, or other family pets. This is nature’s way.

This was the case in my home very recently. Ten days prior to my youngest cat, Prince, becoming really ill, my smallest female cat, who never liked Prince, was marking her territory and trying to keep him away from her food. She was hissing at him and tried to chase him out of the house.

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence ~ George Santanaya

Prince showed no signs of illness. He was trying to avoid her by going into cupboards and hopping into the bath. Eventually, he would go and sit in the garden and just stare at the fencing. I had imagined he was looking at the interesting new creatures outside. I now realize that he would have probably wandered off had the fence not been sealed off at the bottom, and I would never have known what became of him.

Many people’s pets wander off this way to end their life quietly. It is still not easy for me to accept. I try to be grateful that I at least knew towards the end what was wrong with him, and that I didn’t think my bossy female cat was just being a bully by chasing him away. Nature can seem so cruel to us from a human perspective.

I rarely have a pet tell me their human ended their life too soon. It’s far more common to hear that their humans waited too long to help them leave their body ~ Karen Anderson

A few days before he passed, Prince chose to remain inside the house under a throw on the couch. After a couple of days of this, I decided to take him to the vet in town. Whilst driving there, I kept wondering what the matter with him might be? Prince had been vaccinated against all feline illnesses and he was never able to get out of the properties where I’ve lived, with its sealed-off, high fencing.

Suddenly, the thought ‘leukaemia’ popped into my head, but I thought this was just me being overly anxious. What a shock it was later when testing revealed that my Prince was in advanced stages of the illness and ready to make his transition home to Spirit.