More Of My Cats and the Lessons They Teach

So, I got to thinking yesterday of some more lessons my cats teach me about our relationship with God. Can't guarantee this will be a long entry, but it might do.

My littlest cat, Iyanka, is a strange one. I love her to pieces and she is a lover, but she's strange.

When she and her brothers were barely six weeks old, I removed them from an abusive and neglectful home. Momma Cat was so dehydrated that she couldn't produce enough milk to feed all her kittens and of the 8 kitties in her litter, only 3 survived and I have those 3. The runt was among them.

So, Iyanka suckles. I found this out a few years ago when I heard this strange noise on my ear. She apparently had found my earlobe and thought it was going to give her milk, so away she went, waking me up.

I quickly laughed and headed her in the direction of my fleece blankets. She suckles on those now. It's disgusting, if I'm honest, when I pull one up and I feel the wet where Iyanka had suckled.

Every now and again, she'll paw at me while I'm in bed, indicating she wants her "suckie bankie", and so, I turn down the comforter and away she goes.

But, every once in a while, she doesn't want her "suckie bankie". She just wants to be snuggled close to me.

As she pawed to be let under the covers last night, I thought of how much we can be like this with God.

We let Him know what we want and sometimes, He gives in. It may not always be to our benefit, unlike Iyanka's "suckie bankie". Other times, we "paw" at Him because we want to be close to Him. And, like Iyanka, sometimes we stay content at His Side and other times we snuggle for an extremely short period of time before we run away.

The Bible says if we ask the animals, they'll teach us about God. (I'm paraphrasing, I know.) But, they can also teach us a lot about ourselves if we're willing to ask them and to see what we're really like.