Celebrate the Mystery, Compassion, Wonder and Beauty of AnimalsTake a spiritual journey through this beautiful collection of blessings, prayers and meditations about the creatures, wild and tame, that inhabit our world. These moving contributions about all types of animals-playful dogs and beloved cats, giant whales and powerful elephants, tiny insects and delicate birds-are drawn from many faith traditions, including Native American, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu and Buddhist. A special section also provides animal blessing ceremonies you can use to memorialize the loss of a companion animal, offer prayers for an animal suffering illness or injury or simply recognize the spiritual connection we create when we fully appreciate another member of God's creation. Contributors include:Akhenaton . Cecil Frances Alexander . Matsuo Basho . Henry Ward Beecher . Henry Bergh . Annie Besant . Ambrose Bierce . Black Elk . Elizabeth Barrett Browning . Martin Buber . Yosa Buson . Isaac Caruso . Chang Chiu-Ch'eng . John C. Chendo . Gilbert Keith Chesterton . Feng Chih . John Ciardi . Jean Cocteau . Rev. Dr. Scott Cowdell . James Dickey . Emily Dickinson . George Washington Doane . Fyodor Dostoevsky . Mark Doty . Johann Eckhart . Mary Cronk Farrell . John Bookser Feister . Rev. Roberta Finkelstein . Eliza Lee Cabot Follen . T. Griffith Foulk . Anatole France . Saint Francis of Assisi . Diana L. Guerrero . Joy Harjo . Stanley Hauerwas . Kathy Heffernan . Jane Hirshfield . Alicia Hokanson . Gerard Manley Hopkins . Victor Hugo . Kobayashi Issa . Francis Jammes . Saint John of the Cross . Naito Joso . Kabir . Galway Kinnell . Rudy Kipling . Laurie Klein . Mukai Kyorai . Laurie Lamon . Lao-Tzu . D. H. Lawrence . Richard Lehnert . Letakos-Lesa . Paul Lindholdt . Kevin E. Mackin . Seumas MacManus . Lauren McLaughlin . Fiona McLeod, (pseudonym of William Sharp) . Sugawara no Michizane . Mirabai . Rev. Gloria S. Moncrief . John Muir . Claire Rudolf Murphy . Gloria Pinsker . Po Chü-i . Sri Ramakrishna . Pam Reinke . Rivage (pseudonym of Mary Newman) . Christina Rossetti . Jalaluddin Rumi . Carl Sandburg . Meghan Nuttall Sayres . Albert Schweitzer . Sir Walter Scott . Masaoka Shiki . Izumi Shikibu . Mark S. Sisk . Christopher Smart . Rabindranath Tagore . Henry David Thoreau . Mark Twain . Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo . Evelyn Underhill . Carl Van Vechten . Walt Whitman . James Arlington Wright . William Butler Yeats | Blessing The Animals by Lynn L. Caruso, Paperback | Indigo Chapters