I am glad to hear I am not the only one who has found that sometimes the universe will hand you exactly your heart's desire when you least expect it. Monty, though not a purebred cat, is an example. But then I wasn't looking for a certain breed, I just wanted to have a cat in my life again. I knew he would be mine before I'd ever seen him. My sister said that the neighbors were saying we had cats under our porch. Even as I dismissed the idea out loud, a part of me felt really bad for a specific cat. I was feeling, "But he belongs in here, not under the porch." I told myself that I was thinking in general terms--stray cats deserve homes-- but I wasn't. I was thinking of a specific cat and a specific home. I couldn't visualize him, but I knew even then, there was a cat out there who belonged to me.

I don't think it's a matter of karma when we get what we want, because if we got what we deserved it wouldn't be good! I believe these things, our very heart's desires, come to us from the hand of a loving God who knows our inmost wants and takes delight in our joy. I believe that Monty and I were destined to be together from before the world was formed. Your beautiful Egyptian Mau also, I believe, was created for you and you for her, and then you were brought together so you would find each other. I don't think it's a stretch to believe this. In Jeremiah God says, "Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you." St. Paul (I think) says there are good works "prepared in advance" for us to do. Caring for well for animals is just one of those good works.

I'm surprised and disappointed that this gorgeous Egyptian Mau did not get but one comment on POC. C'mon, cat lovers! Would that you were so lucky as to have such a splendid and rare cat strut into your life, much less to take claim to YOU!

I, too, admire the Egyptian Mau breed. This one demonstrates its 'mystical' reputation by finding and adopting just you, of all people!

Regular readers of POC will know that I hew to the
reductionist-materialist-naturalistic-scientific approach. That having been said, there have been many instances in my life where I have been honing after something and it soon appears. You might ask how I can demonstrate that a cat who appears and seems to fulfill my wishes could not be any of a number of possible cats. OK, but how about THIS: I am a serious bibliophile/collector and it has happened too many times for merest coincidence that just the rare book or edition I have been seeking suddenly appears. All the proper points are there, condition is right, etc. Other bibliophiles can report similar things, and it is one of the delightful aspects of rare book collecting.

I cannot explain these things, but I can attest to their happening, time and again, but not so often that the novelty is gone.