faith and nature...

Well I'm doing actual schoolwork today. Shocking. I'm reading lecture notes from Beauty and the Christian Life and this part about St. Francis of Assisi caught my eye. He is famous for having a love of creation, he even preached to nature. He exhorted animals to glorify God, preached to a wolf, and commanded swallows to be silent and they were. He viewed creation as sacramentalized and enchanted.

I thought that was rather interesting. And laughed to myself because it made me think of the Chronicles of Narnia and of my childhood. I was worried about the salvation of my cat Shadow and my dog Jasmine. So separately I took them aside; I told them the gospel and prayed with them to receive Christ.

Oh the anxieties of childhood.

Although looking back I think I had a hamster at the time and wasn't very worried about him. Maybe it was because he had a biting problem. hmm...