meet our sweet kitty…soleil.

she is named after sunlight (pronounced soh-lay in french).

in my life, there are two things that rarely fail to at least make me smile. the sunlight, and my kitty lexi. so when we were thinking about naming the kitty that we adopted from the shelter two days ago, there was no doubt that she should be named after the sunlight.

i know she doesn’t look too happy in her first photographs, but she just had kittens a few weeks ago and just got spayed yesterday. can you blame her?

she is a sweetheart.

but more than that is her story of rescue. after spending two hours at the shelter playing with all the kitties, i was almost in tears for how i would have to leave all but one of the kitties there, hoping that they, too, would be rescued.

although I’m having trouble realizing this in my own life, soleil’s rescue reminded me a lot of Jesus. she had been in the shelter longer than all the kitties, almost 5 months. soleil is a siamese/japanese bobtail mix. which, if you know anything about cats, you know that the japanese bobtails are born without tails.

to her onlookers, soleil seems to be the last choice. although she is sweet and affectionate, she looks weird, different, delinquent- at least to most people. and those are the ones Jesus rescues. the lowly, the failures, the unwanted.

soleil did NOTHING to deserve our intense love for her. she didn’t do anything to earn her spot in our home. she simply needed to be rescued. she’s been a stray and malnourished her entire lifetime. it makes me think about myself. how i often feel like a stray.

perhaps i’m a crazy cat lady. but at least i see Jesus in the sunshine. and that’s more than i am used to recently.