Saturday, October 14, 2017

little handmaid (with a tail)

Sweetie sleeps with me every night. Way back I learned to keep a small container of her dry food nearby, because she will appear before me, purring loudly and trying to get onto the pillow above my head, kneading and pulling my hair, tail flicking around my face. Miraculously, I figured out that if I give her some food, she'll eat and either go away, or move to the foot of my bed. She's very cute, and very dear, and as my brother said - a barnacle. She sits there, waiting and hoping, and rather dependent on my response.


And when I see her like this, the passage from Psalm 123 *always* comes to my mind:

"...as the eyes of servants are on the hands of their masters, as the eyes of the handmaid are on the hands of their mistress, so are our eyes unto the Lord our God."

Funny little thing.

9 comments:

  1. good call on how to handle her. Cleo gets more like this all the time. and if I spoil her once, she will want it every single time and lets me know when I am not remembering something! That verse is such a lovely one!

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  2. That verse is just right! Sweetie is very sweet!

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  3. She is such a little cutie! If I live closer...I would come and steal her :))) xx

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    1. I think I would let you "borrow" her now and then. :) Today she and Dolly had an altercation; now Dolly is nervous and looking over her shoulder.

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    2. Oh dear...worse than children :))

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    3. Yes! But it's not too bad; I just feel bad for Dolly, because she would never behave that way. These torties have attitude. :)

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    4. And like children...the cute ones know they can get away with it... :)

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  4. Oh my goodness, she's so cute and definitely in charge. :-)

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    1. I suppose she is, Anne! Hadn't quite looked at it that way.... It does seem to go that way with cats, though. :D

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