"You cannot share your life with a dog...or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings...When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it's just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them...Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect..." ~ Jane Goodall

Can you imagine what life on earth will be like when we recognize and cultivate the reverence for creation that is a natural capacity in us?

I was going to write "if...if we recognize reverence, if we cultivate it." But let's think "when."

And let's act as if the time has come. Today.

Whether or not we enjoy being in a close relationship with animals - or with people - let's choose to respect and be kind to all the creatures, including the human animal. 

Love, reverence, compassion, hope - let's harness them all.

For ourselves and for future generations,
Charlene

THE NINTH GIFT IS REVERENCE. May you appreciate the wonder that you are and the miracle of all creation. -  from The Twelve Gifts of Birth