Once upon a time there was an elephant and a dog...
Perhaps the greatest wonder these days is when two very different creatures on this planet share a friendship of pure love and trust. Tara and Bella's story brought tears of joy to my eyes.
These tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water. (G. K. Chesterton)
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. (Albert Einstein)
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales. (Marie Curie)
If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales. (G. K. Chesterton)
The experience of wonder continually reminds us that our grasp of the world is incomplete. (Stephen Greenblatt)
It was because of wonder that men both now and originally began to philosophize. (Aristotle)
Benediction
This is not a gray world.
May your days be alive with the electrifying colors of God's presence and wonder.
May you look up and around you even in the midst of your burdens.
May you look for God's love in the faces around you, in the falling of rain, in the sound of footsteps in snow.
May you take in the colors of the life God gives you until your eyes and spirit ache with them.
May you be as a bride seeing in every hour the face of her Beloved.
May your wonder make the colors visible to those who walk with their heads down.
May your surprised joy and your devotion make the voice of God audible to those who walk with their pain loud in their ears.
1 comment:
That was one of the cutest things I've seen in a while. It's funny how different species form close bonds. I hope they have a good long friendship.
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