Excerpt from Tale of a Mission Cat (Sula): Sitting with Someone Needing Comfort
Sitting with Someone Needing Comfort There are many kinds of people to whom God sends me. All of them are hurting in some way, and it is my mission to help them hurt less. Some people have done bad things and don’t feel good about themselves. They don’t believe that God can forgive them, but God does. One person once told another parishioner, as I sat on his lap, that he had hurt animals when he was a child, had prayed about it a lot, but had never felt absolved even though he had spoken about it in confession. I guess that is why God sent me to him. He said that my sitting on his lap helped him to understand, accept, and believe that he had been forgiven. Yes, of course, he had. As a cat whose like kind had been among those he had hurt, I forgave him, too. After all, if God forgives us, then we can forgive others, which, of course, is what He wants us to do. In some cases, I have a sad mission. Something bad is going to happen to the person who is my mi...