Divine Mugging?

Moca, our funny little humorless catMy husband loves to pester the cat. This is a cat he inherited by marrying me nearly six years ago. She loves to be around us, loves to lie in spots of sunshine on the carpet, loves to scratch her gums on the corner of my laptop screen, and as with all cats, she loves to sleep in peace.

She also has some rather odd psychological tendencies. She purrs when her tail is pulled. She loves being patted hard at the end of her backbone just before it turns into tail. She loves being rolled around on the bed and roughed up, purring while Husband bounces her up and down like she's on a gargantuan trampoline. Her eyes grow large with excitement, her little ears perked up like it's Christmas morning and miracles could happen at any moment.

This morning she was in the midst of her daily routine--quite undeserved, may I add--of being pestered at the hands of Husband, who was rolling her around on the bed, taunting her by waving his hands above her so she would bat at him.

"Look," he said. "She's gotten her paw caught through her collar." Sure enough, there was her little arm tucked up through her collar, which we tend to keep buckled loose. My biased eyes saw it as a pitiful sight.

"Help her out," I said.

But he only attacked her again, rolling her around on her towel at the foot of the bed, patting her on the head and back, and basically rocking and rolling her little life in ways that would frighten me to death if someone did that to me on the same scale that she experiences it.

"Stop!" I cried. "Help her out!"

"She's out," he said. And it was true. "She didn't even know she got set free in the middle of being mugged," he chuckled.

You know where I'm going with this. But I'll say it anyhow.

Sometimes we feel like we're getting mugged in life, with things rocking and rolling, huge beastly entities attacking us (Not you, Husband!), and spankings coming at us from every side. Might we have been caught in our own collars without knowing it? Might it be that getting mugged actually ends up setting some piece of us free?

I'm just asking.