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Good St. Dominic's Cat Chapter
10 The
Cat Finds an Old Friend After the
fall from the bubble the cat was annoyed that his companions had so clumsily
fallen on him. He walked over to that stone wall that that ran along Joseph’s
garden separating it from the busy central part of Heaven. The wall was cut
from rose rock and roses of all colors bloomed on top of each segment. He jumped on the wall to look
around. Off a little way was a patch of rainbows growing on trees. The
rainbows arched out of the tall busy trees and glowed with brightness.
Standing below one of them was a handsome man with a shovel and a watering
can. The man held a little sapling while the shovel busily dug a hole and the
watering can impatiently pace up and down asking the man, “Now, are you
ready?” The man signaled the can to be still and started to plant the
sapling. The cat immediately felt happy
because he recognized the man. It had been a long time but he knew the man
was Mary’s husband Joseph. For years the cat had wandered looking for his old
family and finally he had found Joseph. He did not see Mary but he knew she
couldn’t be far away. He bounced off the wall and ran
toward where the rainbows were growing. He got there just as Joseph finished
planting the little tree and said to the watering can, “Now.” The can jumped
with glee and poured water on the tree. Of course, it was living water that
made noises as it fell onto the sapling. Almost instantly the little tree
stared to grow. It bushed out and little buds of color appeared that soon
burst forth into rainbows. “Soon,” Joseph said, “we’ll have to harvest the
color to send out to the universe. But it will take another decade or so for
this grove to reach its full brightness.” He turned from the plant and saw the
cat standing by him. A big smile appeared on his face and he reached down and
picked up the cat. “Is it you, after all this time? Is it you, Little Jo?” “Mits me,”
said the cat. To be continued . . . |
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