This morning, both the cats were acting weird, but I didn’t get it at first. My first sign that something was off was that the older cat kept running around the house, meowing at me. This isn’t too strange in isolated instances, but she kept doing it until I was looking at her and saying, “What?!” Our girls get fed first thing in the morning, mainly because they give me no peace until they have food in their bowls. I can’t even enjoy my coffee and quiet time until their greedy gullets are satisfied.

Then I was sitting on the couch, editing a photo before I started work on my Nano project, and I heard the younger cat jump down from the bathroom counter. I wondered why she had been up there to begin with, but there wasn’t much use in fussing at her after she got down, and I was kind of busy, so I just ignored it. Again, though… it was weird.

Then I realized the older one was skulking in the bathrooms, and she even acted like she was going to jump up on the toilet. I thought she might be chasing a spider, but there were no critters anywhere around and she just kept meowing at me.

I went downstairs to say something to my husband, who was playing Xbox 360, and she followed me down the stares and started whining like crazy. “She is so weird! She’s been acting like this all day,” I told him, then turned to address her. “Kitty, you’ve been fed already! What do you want?” The other one came running downstairs to join the chorus.

Then I noticed the water bowl was completely bone dry. They needed water.

Of course I hurried to give them water, apologizing as if they could understand. I hadn’t realized until then that I had forgotten to water them when I fed them this morning. (Maybe that’ll teach ’em to demand breakfast before I get my coffee!)

Kidding aside, I felt terrible. They needed me and I let them down!

When we’re thirsty, when we’re seeking, people might think we seem weird. Psalm 42:1-2 says, “As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; when shall I come and appear before God?”

In John 6:35, Jesus calls Himself the bread of life. In John 4:7-14, we see that He is also the source of living water, that which sustains not only temporal physical life, but eternal life (verse 14).

You can’t worry about being weird when you need water.