Just Add Cats…
Funny title, eh? I bet people who know me didn’t even know I like cats that much. I do like cats, but not that much. So what gives?
Ever since I have to learn everything there is to know to live stream, I came across a YouTuber and have been part of his community to the point I am a moderator for his live streams. A few days ago, he asked his community to subscribe to his wife’s YouTube channel to get her to over 1,000 subscribers so that she will have access to more tools. So, I did.
She is some character. Not in a bad way. She is a very colourful person and has a very exciting perspective on life. Now, if you think that means she is not a smart one, then you cannot be more wrong. She was actually was invited to deliver a mini-TED Talk, and for good reason.
Before I came across that mini-TED Talk video, I joined her live stream on the day that her husband asked us to subscribe to her channel. During that video, she talked about finance that makes a whole lot of sense for pretty much everyone. With that live stream in mind, her mini-TED Talk makes a whole lot of sense for how she is the way she is.
In that mini-TED Talk, that was her title: Just Add Cat. What she meant is that in life there are things that may be too difficult, challenging, or hard to understand. Because Cat is her thing, she just adds cats to whatever that may be. What is a cat to her is what she can add to make things more interesting. Since you can’t change that part of your life, attempts to change the part itself are going to be met with disappointment. So, instead of changing the part, might as well add filters to help adapt to the situation, circumstances, or whatever parts there are.
Today’s Scripture Reading is from Ecclesiastes 3:1-15. It talks about a time for everything. What do you do when it is time for something that you do not like to face? Too difficult to face? Or, you think it is wrong for you to face it? Just add a cat or two. What is your cat? I can’t tell you. You will have to figure that out yourself.
What makes something a “cat”? A Cat to that girl was something that provides her with comforts at times, and inspiration in others.
Cats work for her, but only for her or selected people, and it is plausibly necessary for her to add lots of cats to get through certain things because cats have their limit and their effect can and will pass.
To me, “just add cat” has only worked when that “cat” is God. Why would I not just say “just add God”? Say it again and see how cliche it sounds. It also doesn’t work for most people when you throw cliche at whatever circumstances they have to face. It is just too abstract. It will only work when that “cat” fits the following from the passage from verses 9-15:
What do workers gain from their toil? I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet[a] no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil – this is the gift of God. I know that everything God does will endure for ever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.
Whatever is has already been,
and what will be has been before;
and God will call the past to account.
What is your “cat”?
