Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $9.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Cat Psalms: Prayers my cats have taught me
    Cat Psalms: Prayers my cats have taught me
    Cat Psalms: Prayers my cats have taught me
    Ebook125 pages1 hour

    Cat Psalms: Prayers my cats have taught me

    By Herbert Brokering

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Cats help me pray, says Herbert Brokering. This collection of whimsical, insightful psalms, or prayers, is based on Brokering’s observations of cats he has known through his life – farm cats, house cats, alley cats. Each psalm expresses an observation about a cat’s nature, written in the "voice" of the cat, followed by a prayer in which the human spirit speaks of its cat-like nature to God. Cat Psalms is for those who wish to pray more deeply, with more imagination and understanding, and offers fresh ways to see ourselves and new ways to pray.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMonarch Books
    Release dateAug 2, 2012
    ISBN9780857213891
    Cat Psalms: Prayers my cats have taught me
    Author

    Herbert Brokering

    Herbert Brokering is a pastor, writer, poet and pilgrimage guide, now in his eighties, who has written more than 30 books. He lives in Bloomington, Minnesota.

    Read more from Herbert Brokering

    Related to Cat Psalms

    Related ebooks

    Christianity For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      A CLOSER LOOK AT Being a Fox

      Nov 1, 2017

      A CLOSER LOOK AT Being a Fox
      7 min read

    • Article

      Behind The Spirit World

      Oct 23, 2022

      Behind The Spirit World
      2 min read

    • Article

      A Message From Antonie…

      Aug 23, 2024

      Antonie greeted me with bright eyes and so much love. He felt deeply curious as I approached to meet him in a sea of love. There was no fear – only love and simplicity. His energy field was filled with the brightest golden light – it was almost blind

      4 min read

    • Article

      Dreams Dreamt In My Dreaming House

      Oct 1, 2018

      WORDS THABISO MOFOKENG A feeling of being separated from my family robbed me of happiness. The attachment of 25 years living with them haunted me till I gave up and decided to connect with the dreams I kept dreaming in this portable house of mine. I

      3 min read

    • Article

      Over To You

      Aug 15, 2023

      We pay £30 for every published letter I think I know where Olly Mann was coming from in his column “Saturday Sabbath”. He likes to keep one day per week for relaxation. Good for him! We all look forward to our days off, whether it’s a weekend, a pers

      3 min read

    • Article

      Four Poems by Brenda Shaughnessy

      Dec 15, 2017

      Watching little Henry, six, scoop up blueberriesand shovel them into his mouth, possessed. I’m so glad I brought blueberries—wish my kidscould/would eat them. Cal can’t; Simone won’t. Henry’s sisters, Lucy & Jane, took turns feeding eachother goldfis

      3 min read

    • Article

      Behind The Spirit World

      Oct 23, 2022

      What do you experience when you’re channeling the spirit world? Sometimes I will see the spirit world as clearly as I’ll be seeing another person. Other times it may be more abstract and it’s more like a daydream. Sometimes I will hear the spirit wor

      2 min read

    • Article

      Sylvie Baumgartel

      Jun 15, 2018

      I walked in the door, took off my coat, took off my sunglasses, set them down with my keys, took off my shoes and socks, my jeans, my shirt, my bra and underwear, set them all on the chair by the door, walked into the house naked, went to the fridge,

      10 min read

    • Article

      The Final Truth

      Jan 21, 2020

      The Final Truth
      5 min read

    • Article

      Re-enchanting Your World

      Jul 27, 2020

      Re-enchanting Your World
      5 min read

    • Article

      Animal Nature: An Invitation for Reclaiming, Untaming & Being

      Aug 23, 2020

      — Last week, I reached for Mary Oliver’s poem Wild Geese — you know the line, “Let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.” Something in me just needed to read it again. For the last six weeks, since the disappearance of my beloved cat Mila

      7 min read

    • Article

      Out Of The DARKNESS

      Oct 25, 2024

      Out Of The DARKNESS
      3 min read

    • Article

      Horse Therapy

      Dec 1, 2024

      Horse Therapy
      7 min read

    • Article

      OVER THE Rainbow Bridge

      Jan 21, 2020

      OVER THE Rainbow Bridge
      3 min read

    • Article

      Find Puddles Of Tranquillity When You Just Sits

      Apr 10, 2021

      DEEP breath in. Hold. Be calm and mindful. Breath out. Repeat. It sounds so simple, but many people find it very difficult to settle down for a “planned” session of mindfulness or meditation. The more natural state is to get lost in thought, or non-t

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Power Of The Horse

      Jul 3, 2020

      The Power Of The Horse
      3 min read

    • Article

      Ada Limón and Erika Sánchez Discuss Self-Care and a Life of Words

      Jan 9, 2019

      It can be healthy to purge dark things, but it can also excavate old and new suffering that needs to be attended to. The body can't always keep up. The post Ada Limón and Erika Sánchez Discuss Self-Care and a Life of Words appeared first on The Milli

      11 min read

    • Article

      Dana Algosaibi

      Sep 6, 2021

      Dana Algosaibi
      8 min read

    • Article

      Am I Lonesome Tonight?

      Sep 24, 2019

      Am I Lonesome Tonight?
      4 min read

    • Article

      TELL ME A Story

      Mar 31, 2023

      TELL ME A Story
      21 min read

    • Article

      Four Poems

      Nov 1, 2022

      Day after Thanksgiving. I give thanks for Eveto beat the rush of appreciating hernext year and let her sleep inuntil three hundred o’clock.Thank you light on the mountainfor being my star on cloudy nights.Thank you all the guns I’ve never ownedand ki

      6 min read

    • Article

      Oggy, Oggy!

      Nov 26, 2019

      Stephen Thornton, 64, from Monmouth Strolling along the river bank, I smiled happily at my partner Lesley. ‘What an absolutely wonderful place this is,’ I said to her. ‘I can feel nature spirits all around us, can’t you?’ We were visiting the villa

      4 min read

    • Article

      Homeland

      Jul 31, 2017

      WORDS UNATHI MAGUBENI SOMETIMES WE FIND A HOME AWAY FROM HOME. I FOUND IT WHEN I WAS FULL OF ANXIETY, UNSURE AND SEARCHING. I had quit a corporate career a year earlier, cut up all my clothes and saved only two tracksuit pants, two T-shirts and a jac

      3 min read

    • Article

      Three Poems

      Sep 1, 2019

      before I was one I heard every soundas a sound that had never been heard,before I was one I saw every lightas a light separate from dark, colorhidden in a place I had not been.Before I was one I used feet to wakenin water, to pedal through air,hands

      1 min read

    • Article

      Clearly, God Loves Me: The Millions Interviews Nada Alic

      Sep 21, 2022

      "The whole point of art is to ask, 'Are you seeing what I’m seeing?'" The post Clearly, God Loves Me: The Millions Interviews Nada Alic appeared first on The Millions.

      8 min read

    • Article

      Farewell, My Friend

      Mar 24, 2020

      Sitting on the floor, I am holding Oscar, my little black spaniel, and he is licking away my tears… Over the years, I’ve become an expert at avoiding my negative feelings – distracting myself with box sets, getting too involved in other people’s dram

      2 min read

    • Article

      Love Letters

      Mar 7, 2022

      MY BELOVED ANGEL, I am nearly mad about you, as much as one can be mad: I cannot bring together two ideas that you do not interpose yourself between them. I can no longer think of nothing but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you.

      5 min read

    • Article

      A Huxian’s Guide to Seduction Revenge Immortality

      Jul 1, 2024

      Once a year I give myself permission to indulge in real tenderness. I dip an overripe fig in honey and eat it with yogurt. Then I allow some man to worship me. I make him go down on two knees and pray. “Pray for what?” he’d whisper. “Pray for whateve

      31 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Cat Psalms

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Cat Psalms - Herbert Brokering

      I am elegant

      I am Princess. I am Prince.

      See me hold my head high as I walk, as though I wear a velvet scarf, a gold necklace, a sapphire bracelet, a crown.

      They cannot tell I am old. I have heard them guess at my age. For a while I do not ache. And then I prance and leap. And they guess me young. When they look away, slowly I settle into my basket and curl and snuggle. I breathe through my age and feel good years draw over me like a warm blanket. I am old. I am tired. But when I hold my head high, when I walk with careful grace, they guess me young.

      Dear God,

      You clothe my soul in fine raiment. Your promises are as soft as silk and precious jewels. I walk with my head high for all to see. I am young though I am old; for your blessings clothe me in elegance. They will see me, if but for a second, as elegant. I will show the gifts of my royal side, and they will know who lies curled quietly, breathing evenly, snuggled inside a royal soul dressed in your likeness.

      Listen to me purr

      I purr.

      Sometimes they do not hear. Sometimes they stop talking, look my way, smile. They are sure they made me purr. Perhaps they did. I cannot always tell where and why my purring begins. Purring is a sound that comes when I am at home, inside, and don’t need to go anywhere else – when I am warm and content. It comes when they pet me and tickle my chin. It is not easy to purr when someone is chasing me, or if I am lost or cold or wet. I purr best when someone I know well and trust is with me.

      Dear God,

      You give my soul a sound of its own, a language not in the dictionary. Its tune cannot be forced or commanded. My soul will sing when it must, when it decides from deep inside. My soul breathes songs and anthems with no words. All my good thoughts are in one sound; they repeat like the refrain of a hymn, a mantra. The peaceful sound of my soul is mine by heart. It stops. I look and listen to find it again. It begins where it left off. My soul purrs at the twinkle of the eye. My soul’s purr is a lullaby, a pastel painting, a soft cotton cover. My soul’s purr vibrates breath, life, spirit. Dear God, it is so when I let you rock my soul.

      I have many moods

      I have many moods.

      I show all feelings, all emotions. My moods shift from moment to moment. Sometimes I am not easy to love, and will not be held. When they call I do not hear, and will not turn my head to them. Sometimes I will close my eyes and do not notice. Sometimes I will hiss or snap. When I choose, I will come to the ones I know and be loved by them. Then I show my great emotion, my love: I hold the one holding me. We will not let each other go, until I decide to leave. To those I trust I will return to lie at their feet. Again, I will be held and I will hold.

      Dear God,

      My soul is a pendulum, swinging from dark to light to dusk to dawn. I go in all directions. I come and I leave. I will not always be held. I leave the one who loves me best. I hear and do not respond; I want and do not show that I do. I am kissed and do not kiss back. I cannot find peace in my solitary night walks. My soul wanders, stays inside a hiding place. Sometimes I love and cannot quit.

      Show me my centre. Keep me at rest in your lap, caress my soul. A pendulum swings from the centre of my soul. Dear God, you are the

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1