(278) Rescue / Cat tales 11

One day my daughter and I went to church early. Instead of parking in front and running the car air-conditioning, we decided to park in the shadow of the block and open all the car windows. We sat in the car listening to FM radio and watched people walking up and down the street.

In a moment of silence, both of us were looking at a kitten climbing up a tree across the road from us. We were fascinated by its repeated attempts which more often ended in failures. Probably after attempt number twenty three, it managed to climb up the trunk and was hanging on to the first branch precariously. Then we heard the mother cat meowing to locate the naughty kitty. When the kitten heard the call, it wanted to come down but it dared not. And so they called each other, back and forth. Then the mother cat was directly below the kitten. After futile encouragements asking kitty to jump down, mum had no choice but to carry out a rescue operation.

The nimble mother cat climbed up expertly and brought the kitty down by the scuff of its neck.
Are we not sometimes like this adventurous kitty, we wander out of the straight and narrow pathway and need to ask God to rescue us?

- Call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honour me.-

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