CAT IS HAPPY
I have a feline companion named Cat. Cat’s daily routine is to watch over the house and yard and keep all foreigners away; this includes all the little critters. He is not good at his job but his enthusiasm is top line. Two to three little critters appear in the morning, quite dead, upon the floor next to the bed when I wake. He sleeps with me but like all felines he is extremely independent and walks gingerly around our four dogs.

Please don’t misunderstand me. This is not about Cat. My concern is rather on the small critters he lays on the floor each day.

I was raised in the early 40’s and my childhood memories are of living in a small “beet” shack on my mother’s friend’s farm. This was only for a short while until my father found us a house to live in the nearby town but at the tender age of four I was allowed to cross the dirt road, open the fence, and bring the cow, Bessie, back. I new I was at least eight but my little brother still had to go out to the out house first to chase away those varmints. But I digress.

Uncle Gilbert and Aunt Doll, my mom’s friends lived, in the big house and over the years we would visit them regularly. When my mom was ill my brother, Gene, and I stayed with them for a short time. This was in the late forties and the construction of the home was far from today’s methods.

BUT I do not recall mouse and rat traps, fly traps, felines and canines, etc. Even after moving to town there were none of these creatures. They existed but were considered a part of life. Yes, they are messy and frustrating and can carry disease but they are part of life and what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. We build better homes with almost no air infiltration don’t you think we could allow a mouse or two, a fly or three, a dog, and Cat to roam the structure.

Cat is happy!!!

Writer unknown
Does evil exist? The university professor challenged his students with this question. Did God create everything that exists?
A student bravely replied, "Yes, He did!"
"God created everything?" the professor asked.
"Yes, Sir," the student replied.
The professor answered, "If God created everything, then He also created evil since evil exists, and according to the principle that our works define who we are, then God is evil."
The student became quiet before such an answer.
The professor was quite pleased with himself and boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth.
Another student raised his hand and said, "Can I ask you a question, professor?"
"Of course," replied the professor.
The student stood up and asked, "Professor, does cold exist?"
"What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?" remarked the professor.
The young man replied, "In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the law of physics what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat.
Everybody or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter transmit energy. Absolute zero (-460 degrees F) is the total absence of heat; all matter becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have no heat.
The student continued. "Professor, does darkness exist?"
The professor responded, "Of course it does!"
The student replied, "Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact, we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color.
You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct?
Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present."
Finally the young man asked the professor, "Sir, does evil exist?” Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of course as I have already said. We see it every day. It is in the daily examples of man's inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world.These manifestations are nothing else but evil!"
To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God.

It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God.
God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love that exists just as does light and heat. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light." The professor sat down.
The young man's name - - - Albert Einstein