Grace is the name of my cat. She is a sweet cat, but very fat and meows like crazy if her food bowl gets empty. She doesn't have to eat it, she just doesn't want it to be empty. When you get up first thing in the morning she meows and runs around your feet until you check her bowl. When I come home from work she does the same thing. I can't use an automatic feeder because, she would eat till she popped! I'm not kidding. She is a fat cat and loves her food.
I guess I should explain a little about Grace so you can understand why she is like that. Grace is a stray cat that showed up one day at the church about 9 years ago. Everytime we walked in the building we could hear her meowing, but couldn't get her to come to us. Finally, I went into the kitchen, got some of that creamer in the little tubs, poured some in a little bowl and set it down by the bushes. She finally came out and became my cat.
She was so thin that you could see her ribs and she had just had kittens because she still had milk, so we began searching everywhere for the kittens, but couldn't find them anywhere. I took her to the Vet, and had her bathed, got her shots, dried up her milk and brought her home, (much to Toby's dismay). We figured that someone must have just dumped her out and left her. Anyway, she has been with us ever since. She doesn't even try to go outside when you open the door, it's almost like she is saying "been there, done that, not that great." She is content to just hang out, sleep and eat and boy, does she love her food.
Sometimes my life feels a little like Grace's. Sometimes, I feel like a stray, dumped out and wondering around looking for a safe place. Sometimes when people say you should try something, I just want to say "been there, done that, not that great." Sometimes, I'm content to just hang out, sleep and eat.
The problem with all of that is I am never filled. Like Grace, I freak out if I feel like my "bowl" is empty. I look for someone or something to fill it. And like Grace, I am always "meowing" for more. Maybe, I'm just not looking in the right place, maybe I'm not being filled with the right food, maybe, I need to look a little deeper.
When I feel empty, God has promised to fill me up - "Let us give thanks to the Lord for His unfailing love and His wonderful deeds for men, for He satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things." Psalm 107:8-9;
When I feel dumped out and like a stray God says "Let the beloved of the Lord rest secure in Him, for He shields him all day long, and the one the Lord loves rest between His shoulders." Deut. 33:12;
So just like Grace, I have been hungry, but God filled me. I have felt lonely and abandoned, but God found me. Just like Grace, I don't need to go outside my Lord, because I've "been there, done that, not that great."
I guess I should explain a little about Grace so you can understand why she is like that. Grace is a stray cat that showed up one day at the church about 9 years ago. Everytime we walked in the building we could hear her meowing, but couldn't get her to come to us. Finally, I went into the kitchen, got some of that creamer in the little tubs, poured some in a little bowl and set it down by the bushes. She finally came out and became my cat.
She was so thin that you could see her ribs and she had just had kittens because she still had milk, so we began searching everywhere for the kittens, but couldn't find them anywhere. I took her to the Vet, and had her bathed, got her shots, dried up her milk and brought her home, (much to Toby's dismay). We figured that someone must have just dumped her out and left her. Anyway, she has been with us ever since. She doesn't even try to go outside when you open the door, it's almost like she is saying "been there, done that, not that great." She is content to just hang out, sleep and eat and boy, does she love her food.
Sometimes my life feels a little like Grace's. Sometimes, I feel like a stray, dumped out and wondering around looking for a safe place. Sometimes when people say you should try something, I just want to say "been there, done that, not that great." Sometimes, I'm content to just hang out, sleep and eat.
The problem with all of that is I am never filled. Like Grace, I freak out if I feel like my "bowl" is empty. I look for someone or something to fill it. And like Grace, I am always "meowing" for more. Maybe, I'm just not looking in the right place, maybe I'm not being filled with the right food, maybe, I need to look a little deeper.
When I feel empty, God has promised to fill me up - "Let us give thanks to the Lord for His unfailing love and His wonderful deeds for men, for He satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things." Psalm 107:8-9;
When I feel dumped out and like a stray God says "Let the beloved of the Lord rest secure in Him, for He shields him all day long, and the one the Lord loves rest between His shoulders." Deut. 33:12;
So just like Grace, I have been hungry, but God filled me. I have felt lonely and abandoned, but God found me. Just like Grace, I don't need to go outside my Lord, because I've "been there, done that, not that great."
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