“Drink! It’s all yours now, Sweetie Girl!”
It took a while for me to convince Tori, my tortoise-shell colored kitty, that she could drink when I filled her bowl with water. For so long, years in fact, she was number two in the pecking order. Whenever I filled her water or food dishes, she always sat and waited until Kara drank or ate first.
A few weeks ago, Kara went to kitty heaven. At first, Tori would sit in the middle of the living room and watch all doorways. She waited for Kara to come bounding down the stairs, race around a corner, or just casually saunter by. She waited for Kara to eat or drink. She waited.
She has gradually adjusted, as have I. Tori now waits for me. She is my shadow when I am home. She still waits a lot. She doesn’t know that I have to go make a living, she just knows it’s quiet most of the time now. And she waits.
It made me wonder how much I wait for God. I don’t always see what He does for me. Sometimes I act because I think if I don’t, then nothing will happen. On occasion I have missed the good thing He has for me because I haven’t waited. Maybe I need to become God’s shadow and just wait for Him.
“Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart: Wait, I say, on the Lord!” Psalm 27:14.
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