[Each month in 2025, we wander down memory lane, repeating G=
rif Net email/blog posts for an entire week from 25 years ago – June 2000.]=
I was recently told a true story about a pastor. He had a kitten that clim=
bed up a tree in his backyard and then was afraid to come down. The p=
astor coaxed, offered warm milk, etc. The kitty would not come down.
The tr=
ee was not sturdy enough to climb, so the pastor decided that if he tied a =
rope to his car and drove away so that the tree bent down, he could then re=
ach up and get the kitten. He did all this, checking his progress in the ca=
r frequently, then figured if he went just a little bit further, the tree w=
ould be bent sufficiently for him to reach the kitten.
But as he mov=
ed a little further forward the rope broke. The tree went "boing!"=
; and the kitten instantly sailed through the air-out of sight. The pastor =
felt terrible. He walked all over the neighborhood asking people if they’d =
seen a little kitten. No. Nobody had seen a stray kitten. =
So, he pra=
yed, "Lord, I just commit this kitten to Your keeping," and went =
on about his business.
A few days later he was at the grocery store and met=
one of his church members. He happened to look into her shopping cart and =
was amazed to see cat food. Now this woman was a known cat hater and everyo=
ne knew it.
So he asked her, "Why are you buying cat food when you hat=
e cats so much?"
She replied, "You won’t believe this,&quo=
t; and told him how her little girl had been begging her for a cat, but she=
kept refusing. Then a few days before, the child had begged again, so the =
mom finally told her little girl, Well, if God GIVES you a cat, I’ll let yo=
u keep it." (You can see where this is going).
She told the pas=
tor, "I watched my child go out in the yard, get on her knees, and ask=
God for a cat. And really, Pastor, you won’t believe this, but I saw it wi=
th my own eyes. A kitten suddenly came flying out of the blue sky, with its=
paws spread out, and landed right in front of her."=
God answers praye=
r.
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Dr Bob Griffin
[email protected] =
www.grif.net
"Jesus Knows Me, T=
his I Love!"