Just a minute

From cowering rescue kitten to an integral part of the family in 18 years - our old black-and-white is still sorely missed, a year after her humiliating illness and death.

So, if this is how we humans relate to a 'lesser creature' of a different species, how much more is God pleased by His strangely-beautiful creatures called 'humans', delighting in His relationship with them?

Further, if we made allowances for all the anti-social behaviour, the scratching and clawing of furniture and friends, the puddles and worse, the sick when she was too greedy, the off-days when she couldn't communicate or co-operate: how much more is God's forbearance and before-you-were-born understanding of us, his wayward and self-willed creatures?