A fine day indeed to continue with readings and reflections

there is even a bird on the very top of this bougainvillea that we three love!
Augustus
and Ollie always choose the place for our gathering.
We three need a place that allows us to assume a humble posture of learning! I wonder where they plan to go today with all this coordination and determination.

Oh oh, determination is gone...Ollie has to make a sniff stop!
More sniffing, from all angles! Augustus says, "O brother!"
Ollie is besides himself now.
Augustus and I are now intrigued.
Look at this smily cat!!!
Nope, it is not over!

Finally, Gingersnap is ready, looking at me with his hazel eyes.

Augustus decided to listen while standing with his hind legs crossed. just in case he had to make a dash.

Continuing with last week's reflection upon themes of free will, predestination and the influence of the stars, we read:

"Question. -- If God has knowledge of an action which will be performed by someone, and it has been written on the Tablet of Fate, is it possible to resist it?

Answer. -- The foreknowledge of a thing is not the cause of its realization; for the essential knowledge of God surrounds, in the same way, the realities of things, before as well as after their existence, and it does not become the cause of their existence. It is a perfection of God. ...

...the knowledge of God in the realm of contingency does not produce the forms of the things. On the contrary, it is purified from the past, present and future. It is identical with the reality of the things; it is not the cause of their occurrence.

In the same way, the record and the mention of a thing in the Book does not become the cause of its existence. The Prophets, through the divine inspiration, knew what would come to pass…
The mathematicians by astronomical calculations know that at a certain time an eclipse of the moon or the sun will occur. Surely this discovery does not cause the eclipse to take place. This is, of course, only an analogy and not an exact image." (Some Answered Questions)

The cat boys were very pleased with this reading and so they readily made many kisses and blew them in the air with their best possible cat wishes.

Ciao!