Half A Tail

I'm such a sucker! We got a kitten the other night! Don't ask me why because we need a cat like we need a hole in our heads but it sure has been fun watching that little rascal play. I found a mouse on a rope type toy and that kitten will spend hours chasing that mouse while you pull it across the floor. She is solid black with a few stripes here and there. She isn't any bigger than the palm of your hand and has the best disposition I believe I have ever seen from a cat.

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As you sit in the recliner watching t.v. she will quietly climb the back of the recliner and jump around the edge onto the arm and scare the wits right out of you. Or, you can walk out of the room, come back in and she will be sitting on top of the curtain rod next to the ceiling! And, oh, she is lightening fast. She is at that age where she just jumps up as if someone poked her in the rear end and she will run in this room, across the bed, out the door and fly into another room. You can't get out of her way fast enough and all we can do is laugh until our faces hurt.

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But, she's not "normal." As she was forming in the womb she was positioned in a way that her tail never completely grew. She does not have a bob-tail nor does she have a complete tail...she has half a tail! The hair at the end of her "half a tail" just sticks out in every direction and as she tries to "fluff" her tail (you know how cats fluff their tails up and down...up and down), it doesn't work.

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Want to the know the funny part? She doesn't know that she isn't "normal." To her, she's just like every other cat. She doesn't know that her tail is any different, she doesn't know that she will never be able to "fluff" her tail, she doesn't know that other cats giggle as she walks by. (Okay, I couldn't let that one get past me...haha). Want to know why she doesn't know she isn't "normal"? It's because no one ever told her!

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How many times have you left your house in the morning feeling so good about yourself that day? Your hair seemed to just fall into place, your clothes fit better than they did the day before, and you just left with a spring in your step and a smile on your face. But, you no more walked in the door at work and someone had something negative to say about your outfit, your hair or maybe your make up and immediately your entire day changed. Oh I've had that happen to me before! And, I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I've been that person who has swiped the wind right out of someone else's day.

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"There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus." Galatians 3:28 (NLT) Amen! It's about time we Christians get that through our thick heads! Yes, we are to come apart from the world and stand out, be a witness but at the end of the day when you lock arms with your brothers and sisters in Christ...we are ALL ONE IN HIM! Gracious does that just make you want to jump up today?!?!? It does me!

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Listen ladies, please make today a fan-tab-ulous day! Walk around as if you only have half a tail and when someone asks you what's your deal today...tell them Jesus got ahold of you this morning! =)