Fred Craddock tells about a family that was taking a lovely Sunday afternoon drive, when suddenly the children began shouting, "Stop the car! There's a kitten by the road!"

The father kept on driving, but his children wouldn't quiet down. He tried to reason with them. The kitten was probably someone's pet. It might have a disease. The family already had too many pets.

It did no good. The children insisted that a loving father would stop the car for a stray cat. So final…