Friday, January 24, 2014

(Romans 2:15) CAT

 
 
CAT

 

WE HAVE A CAT

WHO CAME TO US

AS A STRAY KITTEN

AT CHRISTMAS TIME

 

PROBABLY

A YULE TIME PRESENT ESCAPEE

OUT THE DOOR AND LOST

 

WE TRIED TO FIND THE OWNER

NO RESULT

WE CALLED THE SHELTER

 

THEY SAID THEY HAD SO MANY CATS

THEY WERE EUTHANIZING THE SURPLUS

 

BY THAT TIME

SHE HAD WORMED HER WAY

INTO OUR HEART

AND STAYED

 

I MARVELED

THAT SO YOUNG A CAT

WITH NO MOTHER

WOULD DO CAT THINGS

 

LIKE DOING OBEISANCE

TO THE OLDER CAT

WAITING UNTIL IT WAS FED

BEFORE EATING

 

TEASING THE DOG

 BY BATTING HIM

THEN RUNNING AWAY

 

CHASING FLIES

CATNIP MICE

TELLING OUTDOOR CATS

THIS WAS HER DOMAIN

 

I KNOW IT WAS INSTINCT

BUT STILL IT WAS MARVELOUS

TO SEE

 

 

THE CHURCH IN ROMANS

SAYS


 



(WHAT THE LAW REQUIRES

IS WRITTEN ON THEIR HEARTS,

 WHILE THEIR CONSCIENCE

ALSO BEARS WITNESS

AND THEIR CONFLICTING THOUGHTS

ACCUSE OR PERHAPS EXCUSE THEM)


 

WHAT THE CAT DOES INSTINCTIVELY

MAN MUST DO BY DECISION

 

TO DO IT LIKE THE CAT

WOULD TO BE LIKE A ROBOT

 

TO BURY YOURSELF IN JESUS

IS NOT TO BE AN AUTOMATON

BUT TO ACT AND DO

WHAT WE KNOW IS RIGHT

 

TO DO OTHERWISE

IS TO DENY HIS INDWELLING

 

WHAT IS WRITTEN ON OUR HEARTS

 

I TRIED VERY HARD

TO NOT GET TOO FOND OF HER

 

BUT

THERE IS SOMEONE KNOCKING

AT THE DOOR

 

I DON'T WANT TO GET UP

SHE’S ASLEEP IN MY LAP

 

 

FRANK A VOLLMER

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