Remembering Teetee, a feline model of God’s unconditional love
Today, my devotional is the featured blog on my friend and fellow Christian author Alexis Goring's Devotionals for the Heart "God is Love" blog.
By Jessica Brodie
“You were my second mommy, the sweetest girl ever, and I miss you so much.”
The words, scrawled by my daughter in a tear-stained letter to our late cat, Teetee, broke my heart.
We lost our kitty-daughter, Teetee, a couple of weeks ago after her short battle with cancer. She was old—almost 17—and her passing was relatively quick and in the night at our home, a blessing for which I am grateful.
Still, our home is not the same. I still see her in the shadows, out of the corner of my eye as I walk from the bedroom to the kitchen… still see her lazing happily in her favorite sunshine spot, still expect her to come prowling when I get out the cheddar cheese—her favorite snack—for breakfast.
Teetee was the absolute best cat ever—not a pet, in truth, but the Real Mom of the House. The kids might call me “Mom,” but Teetee and I knew she was really the one in charge of everyone’s welfare. After all, she was the one who knew when someone was sick, often even before we did. She’d sense the illness and come to sit by us, try her best to sleep on our head, even, if we’d let her.
If someone was sad, or worried, she’d scooch close and snuggle in, like she could somehow send her “everything will be fine” state of mind directly into us.
And she’d been with us through so much!
I found Teetee at the adoption center of a pet……….
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