One thing feral (wild) cats have taught me, as we have rescued many over the years, as well as feral people ( i think i’ve worked with homeless folks since age 9 at least)…

Feral cats have taught me much about people who experience themselves as ferrel, unvalidated, orphaned-distrustful of the world, others and their environments.

A mentality of scarcity and lack of trust in others, is not only dangerous to ourselves, but antithetical to the way Love works and forms us. We can’t receive gifts from others until we know we are beloved, in short. This is why the real gospel starts with God so loved us…

But reversal of this early life experience is possible. I’ve found myself often involved not just with animals but also people, in part of the reversal of an orphan or scarcity mentality, and being given the gift of showering others with raw authentic acceptance, long enough to where they get the oxygen of Love and belonging to know there’s another response to life; maybe different than their early experience of it. That’s been one of my highest pleasures. To help people walk from the orphanage towards the Castle.

More on this soon, as I’m considering what i’ve learned thus far from helping people, creatures, places and things which see themselves as discarded, victimized orphaned or feral.

I’ve worked with one cat for seven years to build his trust spectrum. People often take longer. This cat still is skittish around others, but will come close with me and my wife. Trust is a journey even with creatures. I learn so much from them.