All too easy to do this, but the impulse to unjustly pass along a bad day should always be resisted.
The Cat Doesn’t Care
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
The line of transference is long, the line to the confessional short, and the tears of the saints plentiful.
And, no, the cat does not care.
The dog might..
a priest’s sermon once related how we should all act as “circuit breakers” and break the angry fault- so that it stops with us.
May that always be the case.
There’s such a thing as righteous anger, I mean … Holes in my socks? Come on! Be better!
A long time ago I heard this analogy about feeding wolves. It was an North American Indian piece of advice.
Feed the good wolf and never the bad one.
Starving the bad wolf, our hearts, will help to feed the good wolf within man.
The Dad had a choice but failed.
He had the opportunity to feed the good wolf by humbling himself and accepting the rebuke, regardless of innocence or guilty. That action can derail the transference, but it takes practice.
St. Therese was a master at this practice.
In short… give it all to God … feeding the good wolf and starving the bad.
The cat cares. All animals know when they are loved.
The cat in the cartoon makes me long for reissues of George Booth, Larson and S. Gross in the daily comics.
CAM
Gary was great fun….