JACK McAFGHAN Quotes

“Once you know this kind of love, you will never question love again. You’ll know it when you see it. You’ll know it when you feel it. You will never be confused by something that is something else.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“Love can be found in unexpected places. Sometimes we go out searching for what we think we want and we end up with what we’re supposed to have.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“You think the final act of love is setting them free to Rainbow Bridge? That is not the final act of love. The final act of love is releasing them from your leash of grief so they can be free in the heaven on the other side of the Bridge. Until you resolve your grief, you bind them to you in the land between Heaven and Earth while they wait, suspended between the worlds, for you to heal. When you are free of your grief, they are free of your grief.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“The whole point of life is to learn love. Life is the school, love is the lesson and we are all here to teach each other.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“Why do people feel better when they blame someone? I don’t know. Maybe it just feels better to be angry than to be sad.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“The heart can never break if you believe love never dies.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“I knew then why I had to suffer. The older we get, the more reasons God gives us to seek His comfort. In the end, He sends us just enough pain and suffering so that we will want to leave. If everything were perfect, we would never choose to go. He wants us to seek an end to our suffering because He wants us to want to come Home.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“We need to go first because we cannot live without your love and care. If we lived longer than you, we would not and could not survive. It’s supposed to be this way. We also need to cross the Rainbow Bridge before you do so that we can be on the other side to greet you when you get there. We wait at home for you here and we wait at Home for you there. It’s just the way it is.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“We tried to make a heaven of earth,
But the earth is just a stage, a school,
Where we wear our masks and play our roles
And teach each other how to love.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“God should always be our first thought, not our last resort.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“You can’t make someone your everything because when they are gone you have nothing left.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“Sometimes in life our master will teach us and then test us like this. He will send the same painful circumstances to us over and over again until we no longer want what isn’t good for us; until he is sure that we have learned what we need to know so that he can move us on to new kinds of lessons and experience.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“Life's just a dream. It isn't real. I know that you can't see that yet. You want me to wake up but in my death I did wake up and I saw you were still sleeping.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“I learned to accept that everything happened in her time. When you live in the moment, it’s easier to wait. When you trust and have faith, you just know that whatever it is will come when it will come. Your master will always bring everything to you at the perfect time.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“There are not enough words in the English language to describe the experience of this. Death is more than life. Humans put their animals “to sleep” when it’s really waking them up. Everybody has it all backwards.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“Why are people are so afraid of death? Why do they avoid talking about it? Maybe it’s because there are no words. With my limited knowledge of the English language, there is not a word I have ever heard that accurately describes what “death” is. You can look it up in the dictionary for yourself. I don’t believe what they say it is. How can you say death is death when it is not death at all, but life?”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“I see how you look at me,” spits the hateful man. He thinks we look upon him with the evil eye when we are not looking at him that way at all. We are just looking at him. It’s because he can’t accept the hate inside of himself that he projects it onto us.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“...why, when people write words do they capitalize “I”? Why not capitalize “You” too? For You are as important as I am. It’s hard for me to understand the human ways.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“Not all dogs are perfect dogs, but all dogs are inherently good. Like people, we are affected by environment and circumstance. Some breeds get a bad rap because sometimes humans breed them to be a certain way, like overly macho or protective. In our life on earth we are dependent on humans for everything, including our breeding. We can be bred for aggression or we can be bred for peace.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“it will make sense the moment you come Home. I could see it all so clearly. I could see what it is that we are waiting for. I knew in one solitary moment why I had learned obedience and why I valued nothing on the earth but love. It’s all that matters. It is all there is.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“. A gentle tug on the leash and I would adjust myself quickly. I never questioned it. I knew that she knew where we were going and I never once looked back. Sometimes God does that too. He reminds us not to get too headstrong so that we remain humble and attentive to Him. He knows where He is taking us.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“The end of this life is not the end of life.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“Animals learn early on that man holds dominion over them. Man on the other hand takes a bit longer to learn. Man is given free will by our Master only to find he spends his life learning to surrender it.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“I know it sounds so simple but Love Is All There Is.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“Life is really the dream and death is really the life.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“Sometimes what seems to be the ending of something is really the beginning of Everything.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“When you grieve, that's all you tend to see. You must move through this time of suffering, strengthening your faith and being willing to grow. As you grow you'll find that your blind faith will continue to open your eyes.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“Several times over the years Kate would tell me how she saw Grady in her dreams. In the dream Kate would say to her, “You can't be here, Grady, you died.” Inevitably as she said that, Grady would disappear, poof, just like that. I tried to explain to her that she needed to accept Grady into her dreams. She needed to give Grady permission to stay. Until she did, Grady would have to honor what Kate believed to be true. When Kate said, “You can’t be here,” Grady could not stay. That’s the way it works. A loyal dog obeys its master, even beyond the grave.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“always worried that if she made the decision to put Grady to sleep that she would be  “playing God.”  She had been waiting for God to call for Grady who suffered year after year, but God just didn't call for Grady. After awhile she got to thinking that maybe this was just a test of her love. Maybe it was a test to see if she loved Grady enough to let her go. I hope she never has to make that kind of decision for me.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master