[…]sheep. The music they play here could put an elephant to sleep. They’ve wallpapered with animals. This place looks like the zoo! Do they think they can fool kids with a kangaroo or two? A doctor is a doctor, right? A shot is still a shot. And I don’t care […]
[…]cat a memory; belonging as he did to doting owners––who loved, it seemed, as only those whose animals become their children can. It was a pretty lie; the cat stayed on, left to the streets and framed in unlit windows. The shadows own him now, protect him too; coat him […]
[…]blue spruce stood as tall and proud as any Christmas tree, but pine cones were the only gifts the animals could see. Who-o-o took my present? cried the owl. Where’s mine? the chipmunk wondered. The rabbit wrinkled up his nose. They’re gone, the brown bear thundered. No gifts. No gifts, […]
©2010 Susan Noyes Anderson How bless’d are we by all of God’s creation! What miracles attend His outstretched hand! Adoring is our gaze across the mountains, Appreciative, our feet upon the land. In reverence, we observe the sparkling waters, The creatures that adorn both sky and sea; In wonder, we […]
[…]Susan Noyes Anderson Of all the people in the world millions of guys zillions of girls of all the animals there are from Timbuktu to Zanzibar of all the statues ever raised to villains feared or heroes praised of all the buildings ever built that stand up straight or even […]
[…]a manger bare: the Light of all the World in Mary’s arms was cradled there. I wonder if the animals were gathered all around and sensing his divinity, looked on without a sound. Created by His hand, perhaps their natures were subdued in reverence as they shared the comfort of […]
[…]stall, a gentle mother’s heart. Two fathers, one on earth and one in heaven, from the start. Animals and angels, shepherds, wise men from afar… all beheld the baby Jesus, born beneath a star. The brightest star in all the heavens… How else could it be?… The Light of Christ […]
