by Roxanne Sperry | May 27, 2021 | The Lassie's Lair
River Rocks and Dogs If you have ever loved a dog, then you know the pain and sadness that comes to you when the dog’s life ends. I am better for the life of a dog. The dog, works in our life, much the same as the flowing water in the river that smooth the rocks...
by Roxanne Sperry | May 27, 2021 | The Lassie's Lair
I stood alone. No, I stood on the path to the beach captured in the gaze of one of God’s creatures; I was not alone. On foggy days the veil is thin. Time, space and sound are transformed by the mystery that lives in the fog. There was a soothing and nurturing blanket...
by Roxanne Sperry | May 6, 2021 | Animal Theology
A reading from The Arabic Gospel of the Infancy of the Saviour on the birth of Jesus 2. In the three hundred and ninth year of the era of Alexander, Augustus put forth an edict, that every man should be enrolled in his native place. Joseph therefore arose, and taking...
by Roxanne Sperry | May 4, 2021 | Animal Theology
A reading from The Protoevangelium of James, the birth of Jesus 17. And there was an order from the Emperor Augustus, that all in Bethlehem of Judæa should be enrolled. Luke 2:1 And Joseph said: I shall enrol my sons, but what shall I do with this maiden? How shall I...
by Roxanne Sperry | May 4, 2021 | Nonhuman Mysticism
I do not think that we will be able to rescue all the species in the world that are at risk for extinction unless we think and feel differently about them. Perhaps we can consider the words of conservationist Henry Beston: “We need another and wiser and perhaps more...
