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Posted on 08/31/2008 9:30:31 PM PDT by JustAmy
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Meant to ping you, too, lovely funny lady!
Wonderful poem!
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That Missing Man ceremony got my heart good! Such a bittersweet remembrance...how totally “cool” of you to put it up for us! Thanks so much....God Bless your work SnL
LOL..That’s the older cats here after watching the 2 kittens run around endlessly.
SIL will leave this morning, go home (Their power is back!)and turn on the air conditioner then fly out on business..Daughter will stay here and wait on him to come get her..He’s renting a van at the airport when he comes back in order to pack 7 cats and all their stuff.
WOO HOO1 That’s great!
That does look like an older cat, but beautiful. I know it must be hectic at times with so much company and animals, but there has been enough happiness to cover it all. I am glad you are taking the 2 cats. Hope your others adapt and from what you say they are! Cats usually learn to love each other.
Even dogs and cats do!
Many college students go on summer missions trips. But rarely does one come back with plans to rescue a baby. Mallery Thurlow, a student at Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids, went to Haiti to help distribute food. One day a mother showed up at the distribution center with a very sick infant in her arms. The woman was out of options. The baby needed surgery, but no one would perform it. Without intervention, the baby would die. Mallery took baby Rose into her arms—and into her heart.
After returning to the US, Mallery searched for someone to operate on baby Rose. Most doctors held out little hope. Finally, Rose was granted a visa to leave Haiti, and Mallery went back to get her. Detroit Children’s Hospital donated the $100,000 surgery, and it was successful. A little life was saved.
It’s unlikely that we will have such a dramatic impact on others. Yet challenged by this student’s willingness, we can find ways to provide help. She didn’t let circumstances, youth, or inconvenience stop her from saving Rose’s life.
Like Mallery, we are called to love “in deed and in truth” (1 John 3:18). Who needs you to be God’s arms of love today?
My kitty Silky si doing so well with the the kittens..She really did play surrogate mom to the 5 now grown cats that were left by a feral mom in my daughter’s compost heap..They were a week old and I was there..helping bottle feed them and tending to their needs..Silky was great with the kittens then..so I am not surprised that she is tolerating them..and even playing with the youngest at times.
My daughter is worried about my house..and my things..I’ll put away what I must..cover the sofa(The other kittens used it like a scatching post one weekend when they visited 2 years ago. None of us saw them in the act..but the results were clear..I draped a throw over the the worst end..and trimmed the threads.
Kitties are more daily fun than decor. I think Silky and I will both be glad to have the fun.
The baby is by my knee..now climbing on the keyboard.
Cats can make you laugh. Even when my son’s cat would come to visit me when he was out of town, she was 16 and sick, but she would take a cute spell and play. It made me happy and I was sad, too, because we knew her days were short.
I still think of her with love and she only stayed with me on occasion! They capture your heart very quickly.
They really do. I love mine and my children’s pets.
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