{"id":13849,"date":"2026-03-10T08:41:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/a-christmas-miracle-a-lost-cat-makes-it-home-for-the-holidays\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T09:33:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T09:33:21","slug":"a-christmas-miracle-a-lost-cat-makes-it-home-for-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/angels-and-miracles\/a-christmas-miracle-a-lost-cat-makes-it-home-for-the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas Miracle: A Lost Cat Makes it Home for the Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media-youtube-player\"><iframe class=\"media-youtube-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_mL-1rQiZx4?autoplay=1&amp;mute=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>It was <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/angels-and-miracles\/angels\/a-christmas-eve-blessing-from-the-angels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christmas Eve<\/a> morning, and I awoke with a mission: to find my lost cat, Baby-Girl. As I got ready, I could hear icy rain pelting the windows. Baby-Girl was out there somewhere in the storm; I could just feel it. Sure, it had been six months since she\u2019d gone missing, but I still had faith. This was the season for miracles, after all.<\/p>\n<p>During the previous summer, my sweet kitty had disappeared from my parents\u2019 house in Indiana. Baby-Girl had been staying with them while I was between apartments. At the time, I lived and worked in Washington, D.C. I was staying with friends until <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/positive-living\/appreciating-a-new-move-a-new-view\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I signed my lease on a new place<\/a>. Baby-Girl had gotten out of my parents\u2019 house three days before I was set to fly back home to pick her up.<\/p>\n<p>My dad and I had spent that entire visit searching for her. Dad was the family\u2019s resident \u201crealist,\u201d which meant he spent a whole lot of time trying to prepare me for the worst. \u201cShe\u2019s either been hit by a car or been taken in by someone who found her,\u201d he said. I rolled my eyes. Dad always supported me, but he could be so skeptical. He could do with a little more faith!<\/p>\n<p>Besides, though I couldn\u2019t explain it, I <em>knew<\/em> I\u2019d see Baby-Girl again. She\u2019d been a stray when I found her. A scrappy little tabby who had survived all on her own. If any cat could do the impossible, it was my Baby-Girl. Even after I returned to D.C. without her and the weeks stretched into months, deep down I had this undeniable feeling that we would be <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/angels-and-miracles\/miracles\/gods-grace\/how-a-pair-of-kittens-reunited-after-2-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reunited one day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, home again in Indiana for the holidays, I was determined to pick up my search right where I\u2019d left off. I grabbed Baby-Girl\u2019s cat carrier and loaded it into the car, then asked my dad to drive me to the shelter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSharon, you have to be <em>realistic<\/em>,\u201d Dad said as we headed to the garage. \u201cShe\u2019s been gone too long. You\u2019re not going to find her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I disagree,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n<p>Dad raised an eyebrow as he climbed into the driver\u2019s seat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t you believe in <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/angels-and-miracles\/how-this-christmas-miracle-saved-their-lives-during-a-flood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christmas miracles<\/a>?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBah humbug,\u201d he said. It was his favorite Christmas saying and an inside joke in our family. He even had a shirt with the phrase emblazoned across the front, which he wore every Christmas morning just to get a rise out of us.<\/p>\n<p>At the shelter, the woman at the front desk greeted my dad warmly. \u201cGood to see you again, Mr. Dillon! Still looking for your cat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Ah,<\/em> I thought, <em>maybe he\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/positive-living\/do-you-focus-on-the-positive-or-the-negative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not such a pessimist after all<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A staff member took us to see the cats. \u201cWhen did she go missing?\u201d the woman asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSix months ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd was she chipped?\u201d No, I had to admit, Baby-Girl was not. The staffer winced. \u201cWhen we get unchipped cats, they\u2019re put up for adoption after three days,\u201d she explained. \u201cIf your cat was brought in, she\u2019s surely gone by now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We walked through rows of cages. My eyes scanned cats of all colors and sizes. None of them was my Baby-Girl. Then I noticed a room farther back. I pushed ahead. \u201cSweetheart, that\u2019s where they keep the cats that just came in,\u201d Dad said. \u201cYour cat wouldn\u2019t be in there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t hurt to look,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n<p>I stepped in the room and heard a familiar meow. My eyes zeroed in on a little tabby cat with big green eyes. She was skinnier than I remembered, but it was Baby-Girl, all right! My eyes welled up with tears. I opened the cage door. Baby-Girl practically jumped into my arms. I held her close as Dad looked on. \u201cThere\u2019s just no way\u2026.\u201d he mumbled.<\/p>\n<p>The shelter staff was skeptical too. I pointed out that this cat matched Baby-Girl\u2019s description perfectly\u2014right down to her white hind-left paw. Still, everyone looked uncertain. This cat had just been brought in during <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/angels-and-miracles\/miracles\/gods-grace\/how-mysterious-tracks-gave-her-hope-in-a-snowstorm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the morning storm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWait here! I can prove she\u2019s my cat,\u201d I said, excusing myself to grab the carrier. I\u2019d trained Baby-Girl to walk inside the carrier when I opened its door. Sure enough, when she was let down in the middle of the room, she made a dash for the carrier and scooted right inside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s definitely your cat,\u201d a staffer laughed. \u201cI\u2019ve never seen any cat do that willingly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Back home, the rest of the family welcomed Baby-Girl to our Christmas Eve. She purred like a motorboat, rubbing up against everyone\u2019s legs. <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/daily-devotions\/devotions-for-inspiration\/spirit-lifting-coming-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">She seemed completely at home.<\/a> Dad remained stubbornly skeptical.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just cannot be her,\u201d he said. \u201cNot after all this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, Baby-Girl made her way down to the basement, where her litter box was kept. \u201cSee? How would she know that the box was there if she has never been here before?\u201d I said to Dad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFine,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m 40 percent convinced it\u2019s her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat would it take to change your mind?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>He considered for a moment. \u201cIf she sits in her favorite spot in the hearth, I\u2019ll believe it\u2019s her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Baby-Girl loved to sit curled up <em>inside<\/em> my parents\u2019 decorative fireplace. And that\u2019s exactly what she did as soon as dinner was done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOkay, maybe it\u2019s her,\u201d Dad admitted. \u201cI\u2019m about 60 percent sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We all groaned. Dad took to his armchair to <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/positive-living\/health-and-wellness\/life-advice\/5-ways-to-form-a-positive-reading-habit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read his novel<\/a> as we wound down for the evening. All of a sudden, he burst out laughing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s so funny, Bill?\u201d Mom asked him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy book,\u201d he said. \u201cIt says: \u2018Baby-Girl, I have lost you. Now I have found you. I will never lose you again!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We all roared with laughter. \u201cIs that enough, Dad?\u201d I asked. \u201cOr does the Holy Spirit himself have to appear and tell you it\u2019s true?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOkay, I\u2019m 90 percent sure,\u201d Dad said. \u201cBut only because the Baby-Girl in the story is <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/positive-living\/friends-and-family\/pets\/dogs\/amazing-story-of-how-a-lost-dog-made-it-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a lost dog<\/a>, not a cat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We were all almost in tears from laughing so hard. My heart was filled with gratitude\u2014I was surrounded by family and, against all odds, my cat was home again, six months after going missing.<\/p>\n<p>It turned out Baby-Girl\u2019s return wasn\u2019t the only <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/angels-and-miracles\/angels\/a-heaven-sent-white-christmas-miracle-in-the-south\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christmas miracle<\/a> that year. The next day, when Dad came downstairs for Christmas morning, he was wearing a new holiday shirt. It read: <em>I Believe!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For more angelic stories, subscribe to <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shopguideposts.org\/angels-on-earth-magazine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Angels on Earth<\/strong><\/a><em> magazine.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was Christmas Eve morning, and I awoke with a mission: to find my lost cat, Baby-Girl. As I got ready, I could hear icy rain pelting the windows. 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