We’re snowed in again here in Oklahoma.
So I'm at home—working, writing, cleaning, doing laundry, etc. When I saw a big pile of stuff my daughter had put in the back room to donate to the next agency calling to pick up our ‘give aways’ I was inspired. Time to scour the shelves and closets looking for things I can ‘harvest’ and prepare to pass along.
Immediately I set to work.
Here’s something—a tape series on mentoring your teen. And how about this, some old homeschooling stuff. Don’t need that anymore for sure. So as I cleaned off a side table in the corner of the front room making piles, going through papers, books and things I hadn’t looked at in months, maybe years, dusting and rearranging I discovered some spiritual material from a long ago retreat which I could use for a meeting this week-end. Wonderful! Thanks God! I can’t remember the last time I saw that.
And then! Then!
My CAT NOTEBOOK! What?
My what? My Cat Notebook! This was given to me by my Mother-in-Law on the 28th of January 1988. It’s only a paperback book, roughly 8 x 10 consisting of (originally) blank pages, cat quotes and now bulging fat from all the cards, newspaper articles, stories, poems and miscellaneous truisms I’ve pasted in it. It’s a treasure chest of booklady wisdom collected over the years, meaningful only to me but very dear because of who gave it to me and all the odds and ends I’ve stuck in it. I’ve shared it with my husband, Mom, very special friends, and both my daughters at various times.
It has been “lost” for the past year or more. I’ve searched high and low for it but couldn’t remember where I put it, who (if anyone) I loaned it to or what could have happened to it. I tried not to worry but I missed it numerous times.
It made me smile. Another beautiful lesson: I needed to let go of some things in order to find what was lost.
Now! Let’s see what else I can get rid of! ☺
‘With the qualities of cleanliness, discretion, affection, patience, dignity, and courage that cats have, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of being cats?’ ~Fernand Mery
And as I typed that last letter, my faithful CAT meowed to let me know he had followed me into yet another room ... as he has been doing all day long. ☺
11 comments:
I wish I'd get snowed in, but I always seem to make it out and down the road to work... and where is that worn out, old english version of my Imitation of Christ? I haven't seen that for about a year either. Pray for a snow day!
I love "booklady" wisdom...and cats!
god bless you my friend, thank you for another wonderful post!
Dear Kam,
Snow days can be fun. Unfortunately I feel like I'm paying for it now ... working on my day off. LOL! But I will say a prayer to St. Anthony for your special copy of Imitation. That is something you don't want to lose. ☺
Daily Grace!
Thank you ... what a very kind thing to say. If any wisdom does come from these fingers to this screen, however, I can assure its source is the Holy Spirit who has used this poor vessel to convey the message. But thanks all the same! ☺ Have a great week-end!
Greetings dear booklady,
Thank you for the happy dose of curiosity and lift you injected in my day with your most recent comment. I left you a book there in response - appropriate for a 'booklady' :) . In case you're interested, in my next post after that I talked again about 'anybody, somebody, nobody and everybody' within a different context - a spiritual context.
I travelled through Oklahoma near the end of January, through the panhandle. I thought about you when there. Anyway - and this was great fun for me to find out - you left a comment for me the same day I passed through. I thought it must be telepathy for sure :) !
I've been watching with both interest and concern the stunning weather this winter season and particularly such temps and snowfall about the country... I'm personally used to the cold temps but I don't remember such frequency of snowfall or such large weather masses. You've been in my prayer all the while Oklahoma has been in the news.
I loved reading your post. It's such warming fun to go through treasures of the past, isn't it?
God bless you now and always I pray in Jesus' Name, KathY
p.s. You're a wonderful 'thinker' and writer, booklady... I wish I could think of better words than 'wonderful' because it's vague or, rather, not definitive. But I hope you can know what I mean. I do so enjoy your posts.
I can't believe we even had snow days a week or so ago. It was 80 today in Fort Worth.
Ann
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Thanks so much KathY for all of your kind words--oh my I am wondering if you have me confused with someone else...?!
I haven't taken much time for blogging lately ... the rest of "Life" keeps getting in the way! Ha! Sorry to be so long in answering. But I SO appreciate your comments. They are always so bright and cheery. Yes, I agree, telepathy for sure. So cool that you were so close. I think it will be such fun to someday meet our on-line friends, don't you? I'll be checking in at your blog very soon! God bless!
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Yes, we've been having a heat wave here as well CiT. It makes it difficult to remember the frigid weeks prior. MH, I'm glad you enjoying reading and my blog. God bless you both!
Beautiful! You've inspired me, once again. Who knows what treasures await in the basement...
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