Orange, Furry Anklet

This orange cat is both a joy and a disturbance.  I take a shower and the moment I set my foot upon the bath mat as I get out, the orange cat circles my leg purring leaving an orange, furry anklet around my clean foot.  I go to brush my teeth, and he jumps up on the vanity and purrs against my free hand leaving an orange, furry wristlet.  I sit at the table to journal, read and think and he purrs against my pen leaving orange fur on the pages of my books.  Someday when my kids read my journals they will wonder why my writing is so shaky.  It’s because of the cat moving the pen with his jaw as he moves against it. 

The great thing about the cat doing this is that it forces me to either lock the cat out of the rooms or stop and pet him and love him.  100% of the time it is the latter.  The cat forces me to just be.

This is exactly what the book I’m working through, “Sabbath Pause”,  for my small group that will be forming talks about.  Taking time to just be.  Especially taking time to breathe.  Until today I never noticed this verse much in The Message translation of the Bible from Exodus 31:  “…in six days God made the Heavens and the Earth and on the seventh day he stopped and took a long, deep breath.’”  God took a long, deep breath. 

Then shouldn’t we? 

May you be aware of each breath you take.  It is a gift from God.

Hope