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    Good Mews: Inspirational Stories for Cat Lovers
    Good Mews: Inspirational Stories for Cat Lovers
    Good Mews: Inspirational Stories for Cat Lovers
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    Good Mews: Inspirational Stories for Cat Lovers

    By Kitty Chappell

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    Move over dog lovers and get inspurrrration from a new best friend--cats!

    God placed cats on earth with a special mission-to provide unconditional God-like love and support to their owners. In Good Mews, Kitty Chappell captures the playful and inquisitive characteristics we all love about the feline species, and she turns everyday occurrences into a practical life application. Her uplifting stories parallel real life circumstances in the overall scheme of God's view, ending with a scripture tie-in. It's a simple and fun approach to understanding ourselves and God a little better, and maybe even our cats, too!

    There are millions of cat owners in the United States, and many of these feline fans love their pets enough to celebrate their special days with them and even give them gifts! You may very well be one of these committed cat caretakers. So...you already know that this Good Mews is for you and the other cat lovers in your life.

    Foreword by Martha Bolton, who's written comedy for performers such as Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller, and Mark Lowry.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateMar 29, 2010
    ISBN9781418580575
    Good Mews: Inspirational Stories for Cat Lovers

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      The author turns her cats' antics into stories teaching about a Christian's walk with the Lord. Each story is accompanied by a Scripture and 3 cat quotes. As a cat lover, these resonated with me! It would make a great gift for Christian crazy cat ladies or any other Christian who loves cats and wants to spend a few minutes each day thinking about cats and their relationship with God.

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    Good Mews - Kitty Chappell

    What a Mess!

    I arrived home from work one evening to a living room scattered with debris. I followed a trail of white ribbons, semi-folded gift boxes, and rumpled tissues that led into our bedroom. I knew Curiosity, our beloved cat, was the creator of this mess, but where was he?

    I peered under our bed, an old frame handcrafted by my father, which sat high off the floor. In the space beneath it were nested boxes and ribbons that had contained our wedding gifts three months earlier. An oversized bedspread reached to the floor and hid this storage area—the perfect spot for an inquisitive kitten. But Ross (Curiosity’s nickname) wasn’t there.

    I called, but there was still no answer. As my eyes scanned the room, I noted a slight movement of the sheer window curtains. On the other side of the bed, at the foot of the curtains, I discovered a tiny gift box stuffed with Ross, squashed tightly, backside down, with all four feet up in the air. For entertainment, he was swatting his tail as it dangled above his nose.

    What a mess! I exclaimed, pulling him from the box. How on earth did you ever get yourself into such a fix?

    Without a meow of response, he bounded for his water bowl and litter box. However long he had been stuck in his cramped quarters or however he got there, he sure was excited to finally be free!

    Like Ross, I was once in a very tight spot. I found myself stuffed in a sinful condition that I could not get out of without help. Only Someone with strong, gentle hands, the desire to find me, and a heart full of love could lift me out of my hopeless situation. I would have been stuck there for a long time—for all eternity—if Christ hadn’t rescued me.

    Thank You, Lord, for loving me enough to reach down and lift me out of my helpless condition. And thank You for helping me the second time, the third time, the fourth . . . Amen

    He brought me out into a spacious place;

    he rescued me because he delighted in me.

    PSALM 18:19 NIV

    a6

    A KITTEN IS CHIEFLY REMARKABLE

    FOR RUSHING ABOUT LIKE MAD

    AT NOTHING WHATEVER,

    AND GENERALLY STOPPING

    BEFORE IT GETS THERE.

    AGNES REPPLIER

    WHEN YOU INVITE A KITTEN

    INTO YOUR HOME, YOU BRING

    INDOORS SOMETHING SLIGHTLY WILD,

    OFTEN UNPREDICTABLE,

    AND ALWAYS ENTERTAINING.

    BARBARA L. DIAMOND

    A CAT WILL ASSUME THE

    SHAPE OF ITS CONTAINER.

    ANONYMOUS

    a7

    Trophies

    Curiosity grew to be a twenty-two-pound, strawberry-blond, long-haired feline who loved to bring me surprise gifts. These included early morning love offerings of beheaded gophers and half-eaten rats, carefully placed on the front doormat just where my foot would land. How could he know that instead of bringing me joy, his trophies filled me only with disgust?

    I’m sure he worked hard, waiting, creeping, pouncing, and stalking through the night. But couldn’t he find better ways to show his love for me? For example, happily eating whatever was placed before him, using his scratching post instead of my furniture, and not fighting with his next-door friend at two in the morning! Even cozying up next to me as I sat and watched television would be better than these rodent-of-the-month club deliveries.

    That made me wonder: What do I offer the Lord to show my love for Him? Do I give Him something less than my best efforts? I boast of my gift of almost perfect church attendance, but how faithful am I in attending to the more perfect gifts He prefers to receive, such as loving my neighbor and forgiving those who wrong me?

    Anyone can attend church. Attending to His commandment of forgiving old wounds, especially ones you didn’t deserve, is another matter entirely. And sure, I’ve read the Bible from cover to cover, not missing a word. But how much of His Word can He read in me?

    Maybe I’ll think more about this the next time I look down with disdain on another love offering from my cat.

    Lord, forgive me for offering You partial sacrifices—the parts that feed my childish ego but which You can’t fully use. Help me to cultivate the offering that would be the perfect gift for You: a pure motive.

    The LORD says,

    "I do not want all these sacrifices.

    I have had enough. . . . Don’t

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