A Cool God Moment

Today I saw God intervene. Did ya know that God loves cats? I have to back track for a moment so you can understand. There are two houses in our rural yard and each house has several cats. This story is about one cat that we call Mama, and she was always outside and pretty wild and aggressive. She was not my cat but my in-laws cat until they both passed away. Then about a year and a half ago a guy named Jay moved into the upstairs of this same house and began taming this wild cat. She fell in love with Jay and would let him pet her and she finally got so tame she would come in the house and not freak out. My brother-in-law Randy lived in the basement suite of this same house and they kind of shared the cat. Anyways when Randy moved to his own acreage about 7 miles away, we decided he could take the cat when he was ready. So about two weeks ago Randy took Mama home with him. She did not want to leave, was afraid, would not eat and hid all the time. Finally, Thursday Randy said she disappeared, but we did not learn this information until Sunday. So by the time I told Jay on Monday she had been gone for five days, living in the bush, where there are coyotes, which would kill her and we still have snow and it gets cold especially at night. Yesterday, Jay and I got talking and I realized how distressed Jay was about the loss of the cat and that he thought maybe if the cat heard his voice or the sound of his truck that she might come out of the bush. We both have been learning to listen to our souls or emotional tugs, regardless of logic. So off we went on a wing and a prayer. Much to my amazement we were not there five minutes when who should come traipsing out of the bush but Mama!! Randy said she had only come back about an hour before we got there. She had lost a lot of weight, but we were all sure glad to be reunited. We decided to take her back home. I was amazed that the small faith we had was honored by God. And before we started looking God arranged for her to come back to the yard within the same hour that He prompted us to action to go looking. These are the kind of things that remind me that there is so a God who cares. Life has been hard at times but then God shows up when we don't expect it and it is so cool!!