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The kittens in our backyard
Last spring, while my husband was traveling overseas on a business trip, one of our neighbors discovered a stray mother cat with a litter of five newborn kittens in his backyard. The neighbor said that he and his wife would adopt one of the kittens, but the other four were going to need homes. He asked if I knew anyone who might be interested, and I said I’d ask around. But to be honest, I was thinking, “Glad this is happening in your backyard, and not mine.”
Not long afterward, the mother cat disappeared. But before she left, she had moved the four kittens over to another neighbor’s yard—which happened to be right next to ours. So they were getting closer. And before I knew it, the four kittens had found their way onto our property and set up camp on our patio.
I now realized that I could no longer be mentally disengaged from the situation. And I’m embarrassed to admit that it wasn’t until this point that I thought, “You really need to pray about this.” So I did.
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Missy Williams lives in Jerseyville, Illinois, with her husband, John, and their two cats, Norman and Miss Cindy.
