3 Cats & A Dog

Relationships are so interesting.  A relationship begins the moment you make eye contact with someone and sometimes even before that.  The relationship between these two cats began about 12 years ago when the darker one, which I call “the little girl kitty,” appeared in the wood pile next to our home in Greenfield, IN.  She was rescued by my youngest son Aaron and thrown into the mix with the orange cat whom I call “the orange kitty,” with the black kitty, I’m sure you can guess what I called him,  and our dog Happy, you can tell I didn’t name the dog. 

This little girl kitty wanted to be loved by the orange kitty who would have nothing to do with her, because the orange kitty felt he was the dog Happy’s puppy.  Well over the years Happy went to sleep under the rose bushes. 

The orange kitty then clung to the black kitty.  Still the little girl kitty wanted to belong to the orange kitty who rejected her.  Several years later the black kitty met his demise on Mithoeffer Street and to this day I wonder what that cat was thinking!  He had it so good with me.  Anyway, since then the orange kitty has latched onto the little girl kitty.  Now, at times, it appears the little girl kitty misses her independence as you can tell from the look in her eyes in this photo. 

We always want what we can’t have and then wonder why we wanted it when we get it.  I’m grateful for a God who clutches on to me and doesn’t let go even when I want to be let go.  Sometimes I escape and walk my own path, but God is always there waiting to grab me back.  Deuteronomy 3: 6 says these words that I cling to:  “6 Be strong and bold; have no fear or dread of them, because it is the Lord your God who goes with you; he will not fail you or forsake you.”  Moses spoke those to the Israelites when he was 120 years old.  Maybe I’m taking them a bit out of context, but I do believe God says the same thing to me and to you.  How nice to not be forsaken!