The other day Jerry and Esther were in Louisiana. It was the last night that they would be on the road before they would be back in their bed in Texas. And Esther looked out the motor coach window as Jerry was checking the air in the tires, and there was a little cat rubbing up against his legs, and Esther could hear Jerry talking to the little cat. And Esther could hear a new relationship already developing. And then Esther looked out of the door and saw this adorable little cat, it has no tail, it was born with no tail. It was so alive and eager and in love with life -- and Esther, immediately, before she even touched it, fell in love with it. And so, then Esther said what she has said many, many times about many, many beasts: "Would you like to come to Texas and live with me?" At which point Jerry always says, "Oh, no, you know what our agreement is."

But this time, Jerry did not say, "Oh, no!" And so, Esther got her foot in that door really, really fast. And then, Esther saw Jerry going off to the office of the RV park, and she followed him in and heard him asking the woman, there, who the little cat belonged to. And the woman said, "I don't know, it showed up with someone, it has been here for awhile. There's another one sort of like it..." She said, "I wish you would take this cat home with you." And Jerry laughed saying nothing more.

And now, Esther is thinking, I'm going to take this little cat to Texas, if all goes well. And then they take a walk and the little cat follows them, and they spend time with the cat. Then they close the door and get ready for bed. About that time, someone knocks on the door, and it is the same woman, now holding the cat. She is saying to them, "I really wish you would take this cat." And Esther is thinking, I don't know how this is going to work out. And she says, "We'll let you know in the morning, we need to talk about it."

Now Esther does not want to talk about it, because she does not want to get the no answer too soon. She is enjoying the fantasy of this. And so, she goes to bed, and she cannot sleep. And then she plays the game: We have taken the cat to Texas. And then she plays the game: We have not taken the cat to Texas. And it doesn't seem to matter which way she goes. She cannot find her place within it, because she is not wanting to displease Jerry. It's not that important to her.

And the she stumbled across the thought, I have met hundreds of cats and I've never met a cat like this.She could feel herself really wanting the cat. And so, in the middle of the night she awakened, and Jerry was awake, struggling with the same dilemma about the cat. Because it is not a cat they will travel with in the motor coach, it really is a cat they will just take back for their staff to tend to. And so, Esther said, "Well, what do you think about this?: If we wake up in the morning and the little cat is nowhere around, we will leave it, and that will be the end of it. But if we wake up in the morning and the little cat is on our doorstep, then we will take it as a sign that the little cat wants to go, and that the Universe has orchestrated it, and we'll take the little cat." And with that, Esther slept like a baby.

Now, this didn't come easily. This was over a period of many hours of considering and contemplating. The desire wasn't that great in the beginning, it was sort of a game. But the more Esther thought about it, the more Jerry thought about it -- the stronger the intentions got. The intention of the cat is in on it, too. There are lots of dynamics, from far before they met the cat, that are all in motion around this.

So, in the morning they awakened and there's no cat anywhere. And Esther said, "I think I will go (Here Kitty, Kitty) take the garbage out, (Here Kitty, Kitty)" teasing with Jerry. And Jerry is laughing, saying, "Now remember, that is not our deal." And Esther said, "I would not do that, I was just kidding." And so, Jerry was out pulling in the hoses, and unplugging things, and Esther was, in her mind, saying "Here Kitty, Kitty," and there was no cat anywhere to be seen, even though there'd been many cats around the day before. Not a cat anywhere in sight.

And so, now they are ready to go, and Esther was in the driver's seat, and she buckled her seat belt, and she said, "Well, I guess that is that." And she started the engine. And as the engine was roaring, across the grass came bounding the little cat. Here she was, coming right to their motor home! Jerry opened the door and said, "Well, little cat, it looks like you're going to San Antonio." And the little cat said, "Yes I am," as she bounded inside.

From Abraham-Hicks Workshop
Tucson, AZ -- 2/15/00