Contents

Foreword

H. Norman Wright

Introduction

Callie Smith Grant

A Dickens of a Cat

Gwen Ellis

Clover

Twila Bennett

The Way Back Home

Gregory L. Jantz, PhD

Small Miracles

Lonnie Hull DuPont

A Mocha’s Just What I Needed

Amy J. Tol

Mittens

Marci Alborghetti

The Cat Who Rescued the Boy

Linda S. Clare

Angel

Lisa-Anne Wooldridge

The Peacemaker

Callie Smith Grant

My Mother’s Cat

Renie Burghardt

The Writer and the Monk

Robert Benson

The Cat Who Would Eat Anything

Tracie Peterson

The Manger Cat and His Mama

Paul Ingram

Frankie, the Guardian Cat

Alyce McSwain

The Cat Who Loved Chemo

Sue Buchanan

Cat Lady

Thora Wease

Iffy

Linda Shands

One More Time

Terri Castillo-Chapin

Peace for Pickles

B. J. Taylor

Empty Arms

Linda Shands

Out of the Woods

Jeanette Thomason

An April Fool’s Prayer

Bonnie Compton Hanson

A Gift from God

Mary Ann Cook

Three Cats and a Stepdad

Julianne Dwelle

Acknowledgments

Notes

Contributors