No Video, No Picture, Just Words--The Rest is Up To You

Let me share with you something that happened to me last week.  Thursday I had to go pick up a lawnmower in Neeses to mow my parents' property in Cordova.  When I got to the pick-up site something caught my eye in the middle of this large yard.  It was a mayonnaise jar moving through the grass!  That will get your attention.  Then I noticed that something was sticking out the back of it propelling it along.  My first thought was that it was a raccoon or possum because it was sort of brown and furry, but I quickly realized that it was a young cat with his head stuck in this jar!  No telling how long it had been in this predicament, but I quickly reached down and tried to gently twist and pull the jar off of this poor cat.  Finally, I got his head out and it was covered with the oily, pasty residue of old mayonnaise, something reddish, and some ants.  I felt such a relief for this little critter.  The cat looked up at me as if to say, "Thanks!"  And then he took off running to a nearby house.  Hopefully, he was able to get himself cleaned up or maybe somebody tried to wash him off a bit.  But I was just so thankful to have pulled up at just the right time to rescue this poor little creature and I thanked God for giving me a divine appointment to rescue a cat that day.

After I loaded up the mower and started toward Cordova, the thought hit me, "Oh I should have taken a picture or video of the rescue and showed it to all of you!"  But then I immediately thought, "I couldn't do that!  How could I waste one second to video the suffering of a little animal in desperate need of help just to make a post that would get a lot of views?"  Haven't you ever seen a video of somebody or some animal in desperate need of help and wondered why someone could continue to shoot a video instead of dropping the phone and jumping in to help someone in need?

So instead of a picture or video I have tried to give you a written descriptive account of what happened so that you could imagine for yourself what it looked like and what it was like to rescue a little life hanging in the balance.  Then I realized, "Hey!  This is what we use to do all the time before cell phone videos!  We wrote books and people would hold a bound collection of pages in their hands and actually read it and actually enjoy it!"  I hope we don't ever forget how to read and write.  I had a seminary professor whose name I can't recall, who taught a class whose subject I can't remember, but he said one thing that stuck with me for some reason.  He said, "Here's my advice for each of you.  Be a writer."  So I challenge you to write something that will make me visualize and empathize!  Let's get creative!