Daily Excerpt from Surviving Cancer, Healing People: One Cat's Story (Sula): Greetings, World!

 



Excerpt from Surviving Cancer, Healing People: One Cat's Story (Sula)

 

Greetings, World! My name is Sula. I am told that I am a very attractive cat. A bit rotund, I am a domestic shorthair with a very luxuriant and fanciful white coat, accented by greyish-black bangs and a greyish black tail. I am almost ten years old, a big girl now. I live by choice at Old Mission San Juan Bautista, the latest in a long line of mission cats, and I am a cancer survivor.

Supposedly, I am a Turkish Van cat by breed, but I doubt that I came here from Turkey. On the other hand, I don’t know where I came from. I don’t think it really matters. I am here, and I like being here. Moreover, I have a mission and a Mission. What more could any cat want?

As a cancer-surviving Mission cat, my chore is to heal people who, like me, must overcome burdens in their lives. (I am so very glad that I do not have the same mission that previous Mission cats had: ridding the Mission of mice and rats. I think they must have done their missions very well because they didn’t leave any for me to chase.)

In this book, I am going to ask the people at Old Mission San Juan Bautista whom God touched through me and my mission to let me tell their stories as they told them to me. I think you will like them.

 

THIS BOOK WAS SELECTED FOR THE LITERARY TITAN GOLD AWARD


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