It’s been a different three months with a pandemic looming round, time to stop and slow down, a new awareness all around. But let’s stop and see a message that we often fail to see
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our creature friends in nature, as they caper fancy free.
We have a family that’s moved in, with bunnies, birds and deer. They think they own the property and scamper without fear. The squirrels, you know, they persevere, in snatching what they want. They’ll stare you down and jump and play to get the food up front!
They’re frisky chaps with skillful moves, at our birdhouse feeding ground. With classic maneuvers, outsmarting birds, you wonder
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without a sound? I know they eye our occasional glance and sense our window peeking. But without a doubt they do their thing, cautiously hiding-and-seeking!
Western PA birds appear, so lovely in their making. But work they must to get their share of bird seed for the taking. While nearby simple bunnies come a'looking and a’munching, on fresh-cut grass and seeds galore, a feast so great for lunching!
And then the deer so swiftly prance, then rest with calm while eating, their careful watch and upright glance sense humans may be meeting! So up they flee and journey on, across Mt. Assisi places, to find more food and resting ground in other familiar spaces.
So, you see it’s been delightful, to glance at backyard capers and watch with silent stillness, at such entertainment makers. For creature friends I thank you, God, Your steadfast love abounds. And thanks for Franciscan showtime here on Mt. Assisi grounds!
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God's creatures are at work in San Antonio, Texas too, where a baby blue jay joined in the outdoor evening prayers of Sisters Jo Goolish and Yolanda Escamilla.
