Animals are such a blessing. We sat down to say our family Rosary tonight and just as we started the first decade, my/our dog came plodding slowly and quietly up the stairs. She crept through the kitchen and came into the living room where we were all gathered around. Looking at me, as if for permission to enter the room, she came over for me to pet her and then went around to each person for some show of affection before she laid down on the floor and stayed there till we finished praying. She does this routinely, almost every time we pray our daily Rosary. It brings joy to our family (especially when she decides to try to kill an ant in the middle of the 4th decade). But I don't think Jesus or Mama Mary minded the brief interruption; in fact, I think they were smiling too. It made every one of us laugh--real, genuine laughter--and the joy emanated throughout the rest of the evening. It made me realize once again how God's creatures bring Him such simple yet profound glory.
"No creature is so little or so mean as not to show forth and represent the goodness of God.”~Thomas A’Kempis
“But now ask the beasts to teach you, and the birds of the air to tell you; Or the reptiles on earth to instruct you, and the fish of the sea to inform you. Which of all these does not know that the hand of God has done this? In His hand is the soul of every living thing, and the life breath of all mankind.” ~Job 12:7-10
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