MY CAT BREEDERS PRAYER
Lord, You know as well as I that my cattery is growing better, litter by litter, and will someday be perfect. Keep me however, from the fatal habit of letting everybody else know it, too.
Keep my mind free of the memories of past defeats, but seal also my lips on our wins and titles. They are incresing, and love of rehearing them is becomining sweeter as time goes by. You know that I want a few friends left at the shows. I dare not ask for grace enough to enjoy the tales of others' wins, but help me to endure them with patience.
I dare not ask for a Top Ten win, but growing humility and a lessening cocksureness when my kits don't meet the faulty standards and personal preferences of a less than gifted judge.. Teach me the glorious lesson that occasionally a judge may be mistaken and that the next ring will right these grievous injuries.
Keep me reasonably sweet: I do not want to be a saint-some of them are so hard to live with-but a vindictive cat person is a crowining work of the devil. Give me the ability to see good things in unexpected cages and talents in unexpected people. And give me, oh Lord, [gulp!] the grace to tell them so
AMEN |
