Here’s an article that was published in my local newspaper about a healing I had with our cat, “His cat’s angry paws had him pausing in prayer.” The Tri-City Herald.
Sorry about the date, October 4, 2025. I figure that it’s better now than never, to share it!
Trying to open article to read but it’s making me subscribe before I can read it. Just letting you know. Thank you, Cindy
Cindy, I just saw your comment after I posted my own. When I tried to open the newspaper article after accessing SpiritView through the app, it asked me to subscribe before reading. BUT! When I opened SpiritView through my email, the newspaper article opened without a problem. Maybe that will help.
Yes, accessing through the app, there is a pay wall for the newspaper. But if you do what Cheryl Ann suggested, you can read it (via the Internet). Good article, Evan.
Interesting. I had the opposite results. I couldn’t get to Evan’s article thru my usual way through the email on my desktop, but easily read it on the app from my phone. Thanks, Evan!
Thank you for the tip, Cheryl Anne. Opening through email worked for me too.
yes it wanted me to subscribe to the paper
What a lovely article. Thank you, Evan. It’s okay that it is an October newspaper article. As you said, better late than never, otherwise we would have missed out on seeing and hearing about beautiful Zoey. I love how you took us step by step from stunned beginning to healed ending. I vote for more pet stories, please!
I’m not able to open it. : (
cannot open either, thru app or email.
Try going directly to SpiritView.net in your browser. it worked for me when the other two didn’t. Thanks Evan, especially for “with no marks in my thought, there couldn’t be marks on my face”.. How often we rehearse incidents in our thoughts, wh7ch never supports healing results.
Evan, Thanks for such uplifting message: “I am confident that if there is no mark in my thinking about what happened, the marks on my face would vanish too”.
You can read the article at: https://www.tri-cityherald.com/living/religion/spiritual-life/article312326701.html
Thank you, Harmony. You brought harmony to me with the link you provided, so I was able to read the article. At first I was dismayed and annoyed that it seemed i couldn’t read it without a subscription. But what an apt lesson! Thank you, you are well-named!
Thank you Harmony! I couldn’t access the article through my email or the app. It’s such a great article. And, truly nothing is lost with God – even the ability to read an article of inspiration.
thank you Harmony was able to access through your link.
Thank you so much, Harmony – I couldn’t get it either. It is a really lovely testimony, Evan.
and I know all animal lovers will benefit from reading it. You proved in part that to the real spiritual
senses ” of man, all God’s creatures are harmless, useful and indestructible” as Mrs. Eddy declared in S&H.
We need to love them and respect them.
Thank you Harmony ..I was unable to access the article either.
What a great story, lesson and healing Evan. I’m so glad you shared this. My son has a Maine Coon and they are a very intelligent animal!
Thank you for explaining your thought process to arrive at the spiritually mutual answer here. It could be applied by so many of us to numerous problems. How great that you take her with you on your travels….
….’’To be patient and loving under provocation, to be graciously kind and considerate in the friction of daily associations, to express God’s thoughts, day in and day out, will contribute to the building of Christian character, and thus prepare one for the occasional big things one may have the opportunity to do.’’
This is a quote from a sentinel article by Samuel greenwood .
Thank you again❣️
I was able to open the article.
Maine Coons make wonderful pets; they are very social and loving, also smart, and another part of God’s wonderful kingdom.
This article made me feel very sad for Zoey. It feels so wrong to imprison such an intelligent animal as a cat alone in a camper all day. No wonder she needed some attention. Perhaps there could be a better arrangement made for her. I do feel so sorry for cats confined to a life inside. Although I also hate to see them catching wildlife.
Good morning Izzy and Evan
Evan thank you for the wonderful article, Evan, I really loved it! I love all animals and anytime you want to post another article about an animal this is one person that would appreciate it. thank you again. I will now never think to blow in my cat Sunny’s face.
Izzy, please know it’s much healthier for cats and wildlife for the cats to live indoors. I have two that are inside and they love watching the birds through the window. My cat Sunny was a outdoor rescue a few years back and I know decimated many wild birds in his time outside. He and My other cat Jack are happy inside and my thought is eased knowing he will not be prey for coyotes, etc and the birds will continue to enjoy my garden and yard.
Love and joy to you all today. ♥️
(Hope this is not too much off topic)
I agree, Melissa If we think about our pets as ‘imprisoned’, we’re not doing them or ourselves any favors – I’ve had indoor cats for many years, and embrace the fact that they are loved, cherished, well-adjusted and cared for in every way by their Maker. After all, they’re spiritual too, here to fully express joy and playfulness, despite what mortal appearance might suggest.
I sent this to my friend who absolutely loved this. Her cat is a house cat. Even if the front door is open she prefers to be inside lying on the window ledge watching the activities
going on outside. She loves being brushed but won’t have her stomach brushed and the claws come out. My friend found the ideas in the article so helpful. Thank you Evan.
How is it healthier for cats not to go outside into God’s glorious nature and have the freedom to exercise and experience all there is? I get the wildlife argument, it is one reason I don’t have a cat, but really don’t understand the first part of what you say.
In the world picture, big birds catch wildlife too, as humans could be said to keep enslaved animals to kill and eat, which would appear to be even worse. But in the proportion that we work to “keep human consciousness in constant relation with the divine” (MBE My 160:5) we begin to see that all is entirely of, and perpetually governed by, Love alone, and the pictures of killing and cruelty begin to disappear into their native nothingness.
Cats are wonderfully independent – if Zoey didn’t want to go with mum and dad in the trailer she would make sure she didn’t . Cats love to share in family outings . Absolutely lovely experience – thanks Evan
Well, she wasn’t sharing in a family outing, she was stuck on her own in a vehicle all day. And then when they got back and he didn’t give her the attention she needed she lashed out. I’d say thats a clear message of frustration and a cry for help possibly because she isn’t able to express her natural cat independence. Animals are allowed to communicate too. No one is saying she doesn’t enjoy a trip out of the house.
Hi Izzy,
Please rest assured, Zoey is a VERY loved and well cared for cat. She LOVES to travel with us. She is eager to go with us. And yes, she gets plenty of time outside to enjoy the wild and watching the brids, and wildlife. Zoey and I are very good friends!
Hi Evan, thank you for this. I honestly don’t doubt that she is loved and you are great friends. And I’m sure she loves to travel – especially the travelling part, spending time with you both when you are both in such a relaxed, positive frame of mind. Reading your account, I was disappointed that your initial reaction was anger, towards an animal that had been left alone all day and was very obviously needing your attention. My guess is that something happened that day when you were gone, and she was in need of reassurance and comfort. Or maybe it was just the length of time you were gone. You said you felt betrayed, I get the strong feeling that she did too. Animals have a great sense of right and wrong. But animals are also incredibly forgiving, and I’m so glad you were also able to move forward from it, as she was. And I’m glad to read that she gets to spend time outside!
Thank you, Harmony. You brought harmony to me with the link you provided, so I was able to read the article. At first I was dismayed and annoyed that it seemed i couldn’t read it without a subscription. But what an apt lesson! Thank you, you are well-named!
Thank you Evan. I love that your articles and testimonies of healing get published in your local paper. What a benefit to all reading. ❣️
Thankyou Harmony for providing the link. I to was disappointed thinking I wouldn’t be able to read the article. Thankyou Evan for sharing this with us . the Truth you shared was very helpful to me since I do have several cats and once in awhile they get a little demanding for my attention. this is very inspiring for me. Thankyou.
I told my sons 3 dogs, 2 Rottweilers and a German Shepherd that they needed to get a job, because of all the intelligence and energy they expressed. They are dearly loved and live in a rural area in Australia with lots of open space to run around. An answer that came to me was from Miscellany 165:18 “What am I? I am able to impart Truth, health and happiness and this is my rock of salvation and my reason for existing.” I pray to see more of their completeness and satisfaction.
For the people who can’t open the article, I think the Tri-City Herald allows non-subscribers to view one article for free each month. Since I shared an article from the Herald with you last week, if you read that article, I’m guessing that used up your one free alllowance for this month. However, if you try to access the article a different way than you did last week, that may work.
Sorry about that. I rarely have more than one link from the Herald to share with you in a month, so haven’t faced this problem before.
Thank you for this helpful article! I was able to access this from the link provided in the email and accessed from my phone.
I will keep cherishing the idea that “if there is no mark in my thinking about what happened, the marks on my face would vanish too”. Thank you Evan!
Thanks to Harmony’s link I read the excellent article and know at times this is an imposition on my relationship with my cats too. Sometimes it seems like our desires are at odds and one has to “give”. The other day one cat came up on my lap and snuggled down in a fleece wrap. Then another came up and I thought the first one might leave, but I got another wrap and they settled down, one almost on top of the other. I was happily reading CS Journal and loving seeing the cats had fallen asleep, so peaceful. Just then I heard the oven alarm go off. But the idea really bothered me of having to rouse them to get up. Why should either the cats or me have the good but not both? I prayed and said God, you love us both, what should I do? The answer came to pull a nearby chair over and quickly transfer the first cat over to it on the fleece, and tuck her in. She barely woke up and just settled in. Then the thought came to transfer the other one to the carpet. Same thing. I was amazed that they were so calm and happy and did not run away. We all were able to have uninterrupted peace and still be where we needed to be.
How wonderful to be able to take a beloved pet in the RV with you. where she can still feel loved and part of the family. A beautiful testimony of healing, Evan and so lovely to be able to share with the wider community.
I was once cat sitting a customer-friend’s cat, who was rather ornery at times
and would swat at anyone passing by on her perch on a wing-back chair.
This was a demonstration of trying to see the best in her, as they were
away for a while and she was under my care. The very first day I went to
feed and give her water and give her love, etc., she was nowhere to be
found. She was an indoor cat and I knew no one had come into their house
after they had left, (where she may have snuck out). I searched the entire
very large house and she wasn’t to be found. In desperation I prayed that
she had to be in her right place, but I just could not see where that right place
was, at the time. I called and called her, but to no avail. She had not eaten
any of the food they had left for her, so I was beginning to really get worried.
The thought (God-derived) came to look in a crawl space that I didn’t even
know had existed. There she was … as happy to see me, as I was to see her!
When they had gotten their luggage from this space, somehow she had snuck
into this area unbeknownst to them. I was so grateful she was alright. This
experience helped us both appreciate each other more. Love reflecting Love.