Road to Fifty Reflections: Day 10

I am two or three days behind in my Road to Fifty reflections, which are usually drawn from the Gospel or from the happenings of the day. So now, I’ll try to gather my thoughts from the days I’ve missed.

Yesterday, I shared about the quiet heaviness I carried in my heart. It was not only because of the dying newborn kitten, but also because I had been unkind to its mother. Since we cannot take in more community cats to feed, I would often shove her away or spray her with water. Many times, I act more from the pressure of my surroundings than from charity... and that saddens me, because it is contrary to what I preach.

I also wondered if the mother cat did not tear off the sac of her kittens because she herself had no safe place to raise them… or perhaps she was too poorly nourished or stressed.

Moving forward, I pray that I may act more spontaneously out of charity and not out of fear of what others might say.