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Category: Animals

  • Learning to fluff our feathers and find shelter in our faith

    Today a beautiful red cardinal lighted on the head of a cement pelican that sits on one of the posts on my front porch railing. He cocked his head to the side and looked in the window at me, where I sat at my desk, as if to ask what happened to all the food…

  • Oh, to have gratitude like the fishes

    The stories of the saints are chock full of inspiration, so when I had the chance to speak to more than 400 Catholic school teachers recently, I decided to share one of my favorite stories, attributed to an event in the life of St. Anthony, a powerful preacher and insightful teacher. When preaching in a…

  • Think before you speak is divine wisdom

    “Thoughtlessness – I try not to think about it.”                                                                                            …

  • ‘A perfect dose of grace’ for all seasons

     This small but powerful book of stories is the perfect read for you when you want to reward yourself with some well-deserved quiet time! Rabbi Irwin Kula, author of “Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life” wrote, “If you want to find God, know love, and truly understand these are the same, read this beautiful book. But be prepared…

  • God has a fondness for flying dogs

    I have always loved the writings of St. Francis de Sales because I have always found encouragement in his admonitions to be gentle with ourselves. He wrote, "Patience is the one virtue which gives greatest assurance of our reaching perfection, and while we must have patience with others, we must also have it with ourselves."…

  • Canine lessons are good for soul and body

    For the past week I have been dog-sitting for my son’s newest addition, Sadie.  Rescued several weeks ago from a kennel, we know very little about Sadie’s background, but her many fears, especially of enclosed spaces, like houses, rooms, or cars, provides a challenge, since she often has to be pushed or lifted to get…

  • Real love provides more than leftovers

    My son and daughter-in-law are animal lovers, and even before they moved in to their new house, with lots of space and a great yard, they were fostering the biggest Great Dane I have ever seen, the Snuffleupagus of Great Danes, Pluto. They made room for him in their apartment, along with Evie, an adorable…

  • Growth requires new ways of thinking and being

    For a number of years, I worked with a boss who encouraged us often to think outside the box, a phrase that has, today, become so commonplace as to be ordinary. Still, whenever I hear the phrase I think of him and his desire for us to engage in extraordinary thinking. While cleaning recently, I…

  • A spider’s lessons on life and friendship

    Who would have thought that, in the middle of winter while taking garbage out to the deck, I would run into a very large spider hanging down from a single line of web? In the warmer weather, we seem to have an overabundance of spiders, but I’m not accustomed to seeing them when there's frost…

  • Hey, there’s a goose in my manger!

    Pulling in to my driveway yesterday, I noticed something different about the Nativity scene on the   front lawn. As I got closer, I realized someone had added a ceramic goose to the small group of animals looking in on Mary and Joseph. I smiled, and thought, “Why not?” There are geese in Bethlehem, and why…