The Lady and Her Cat (WC)

 

(from Bradi Barth’s "Evangelisation Wardrobe” series)

(Wendy Cabell, forefeast of the Entry/Presentation of the Theotokos Into the Holy Temple, and of the anchoress Saint Maxentia, and of martyr Saint Nerses of Sahgerd who refused to worship the sun. Today on the Jewish calender, Noah's ark comes to rest (2104 BC). Image from here.)

The Lady and Her Cat

(response to Annunciation image from Bradi

Barth’s "Evangelisation Wardrobe” series)

For in this we groan, earnestly desiring 

to be clothed with our habitation 

which is from heaven

--2 Corinthians 5:2

The striped cat just wasn’t the same

after the accidents. Good thing —

for the Lady took her in.

Liked how this cat never chewed the flowers or clawed the sheets. This cat now snuggled on quilt as the Dove comes calling.

Cat's one eye watching, spies her Mistress --

whose hands to heart. Mayhap the Dove

will drop His bit of green into Her hands!

Mayhap those hands will stroke striped fur

and waiting soul, before the hobble, pounce

— upon holy ground.

Before dinner,

and prayers and bedtime stories

and a tomorrow of nestled light...

*From prompt: Write as response to a piece of art selected from those presented in Betsy Beckman and Kathleen Kitchline's Abbey of the Arts retreat Once Upon a Time in a Town Called Nazareth, November 20, 2021. Bradi Barth's image was selected, above.)