A Perfect Peace

By Lance Tassi

As all of you know that it is often said, that seeing is believing. Well, finally you have a book in your hands that allows for you to physically see its ending. This happens from something we all do which is by our taking for granted with the choices we make. They can be good or bad choices but sometimes, these bring us other opportunities. So right now from this very true story, everybody will be given a first-time, real opportunity that shall be presented to you by""of all things""a spirited cat. For it simply doesn't matter if you have a pet or not because I shall make all of you the same promises. They are, that you will never be friends with this annoying cat or allow her to stay inside your home. Yet I truly know that she will find her way into your heart. I also need to make you fully aware that this cat is extra mean and has a bad habit of biting. However, before you try chasing her away, I do know that she will chew deeply into your emotions and hiss constantly inside of your thoughts. With that guaranteed, you need to understand that this nasty cat has a most special gift for you that comes from the word peace. In fact, it's from her precious gift that allows for you to actually see of the amazing ending as I alone cannot give that to anybody. However, I can promise all of you this as well: that it's from her wonderful gift that shall always have you to remember the title of A Perfect Peace.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Aug 12, 2019
• ISBN: 9781645155683

Book preview

Chapter 1

Really

Please let me assure you, if there is a story that should never have been written, it could easily be this one, plain and simple. At one time, I thought that I was someone who hated cats. The thought to have a cat never entered my mind. My sister had a cat. It was a calico cat, and I was never nice toward it. I was actually even worse than that, so it is best to end that statement—right here!

My story began with cruiser when I was in my early fifties. I was divorced, alone, and super struggling with catastrophic PTSD from Vietnam. I can’t dwell on these two things in this book, but they do or will have a deep place in this story, especially the latter of the two. Yes, I was alone as many of you have also been alone. Loneliness can be painful. I tried the dating option. It didn’t get me anywhere especially after I got set in my ways. Seemed I moved more backward than forward. My embedded military mind, with its experience, would tell me to not get involved in any long-term relationship. With these thoughts, deep isolation had set in.

One day, I was thinking it would be nice to have something to say hi to after many, many hours at work. I thought I might at least try a dog. I had a couple in my life, and they were good, loyal, and smart. They are also easy to train, at least from my experiences with them. But deep inside, I knew I could not have another dog. I worked at least six days a week and very long hours. A dog, as we know at bare minimum, does at least two things. Eat and, eventually, let it out. So the thought of a dog quickly faded.

Out of nowhere, thoughts of having a cat began to enter my mind. I laughed at that thought because I was a real, official cat hater! I have always seen them as empty and untrainable except for maybe using a litter box. I mean big deal to use a litter box. If they can’t be trained to do this, then it very quickly becomes an outside cat. After this, you come home, and the cat will be wagging its tail, saying, Meow, meow. I am your friend, at least, if you feed me.

A goldfish, hamster, or any of the other exotics were not anything I wanted either. But the thought of a cat kept coming to my mind for whatever reasons. After all, it could be that God or his Mighty Son, Jesus Christ, were bringing this cat to me. They do communicate with us, and this is a very great thing. In fact, if you read my first book, A Crown for Jesus, you will find out a lot of this. They have a very special, undeniable greatness because they always have all the power. In fact, the picture on the cover of that book is also very real to assure you that they can make all things to be possible.

So please do Google the book and cover. Reading it will be so much better for you. The story is power-packed with life’s circumstances and blessings. The cover itself will cause you to look at it time and time again—just like the cover on this book.

Now with that said, whether it was God or Jesus telling me to get a cat or not, I still had a cat in my thought process. So I started asking around to find out who, if anybody, had a cat at all. To tell you the truth, I actually found a few people who did. My questions to them were of real concern because I never gave my sister’s cat the time of day or even a nice day. Yet this cat thing seemed to be the option that might work for me. But even still, I could not condition my embattled brain to process this cat for me thing!

I decided to book a cruise. A drink here and there seemed appropriate to help me forget what I needed to forget and help me to not dwell on things—especially being alone. The cruise was great but to my surprise about a week after being home, I started to once again feel that depressed emptiness.

While reading the paper one day, I saw an ad for a tricolored cat. The price was free. I knew that tricolored meant a calico cat, and the only good thing I remembered about my sister’s calico was it sure did have real pretty fur. Yes, my arm was being twisted as I was debating yes or no to get this cat. After a couple of days of confrontation in my head, I just said why not! So I called, being pretty sure nobody else would. I thought 99 percent of the people surely hated cats. In fact, if you are one of them, you are certainly going to find extra value in this story. I guarantee you, both God and Jesus Christ can do that for you. They have, in their way of all power, the very ability to put something into the empty, the someone, or something to love. This includes a purpose for your life. God gives all these things, and you have nothing to lose.

In fact, if you are only a dog lover, fish, lizard, or some other kind of pet lover, or if you want no pets at all, God can still create a better way for you. His experiences are everlasting. Big games and big days like the Super Bowl Sunday are one-day emotional experiences. I guarantee you, when God changes your life, it is much bigger and better than any Super Bowl. It stays in you a lot longer than one game. You will be surprised like never before.

I decided to call about the advertised cat. My assumption of no-takers for the tricolored cat was right. So I listened to this guy who I knew—or most certainly gave me the feeling—that he quickly wanted to get rid of it. He sugarcoated the story with how friendly the cat was. I could figure out this person’s line of bull could easily wrap around the world a dozen times. But I went to see it anyway, knowing somehow, when this guy told me how gentle, easy to hold, easy to clip its nails was really not likely to be done by me or anybody else!

When I got there, the cat and I looked at each other and sure enough, the cat scattered. All of my inclinations of this guy giving me a line of bull to fill a thousand barns were right. He tried to explain this cat as being recently abandoned by the owner when they moved. This, he said, was why it ran so fast because it was abused. Then he said, In a few days when it got to know me, it would warm up to me, so I could hold it and pet it.

I could only say, Really, really? I should have said, Never mind, I changed my mind! Yet in the quick split-second that I saw it, I could see it’s