Sunday, April 24, 2022

The Love of Animals Gives a Wider Window to Life






Our little Spunky.  Wonderment. Loving. Mischievous sometimes, but grateful. Would rather play than eat.  


She was an orphan, abandoned in the woods, rescued and delivered to us.

Crying, disheveled, flea infected, but Spunky.  


The only cat not afraid of surrounding dogs at the rescuers home, but would climb the side of their brick house to reach the rescuing tree limb for her safe haven.  


Seventeen years, deserving more than just comment.  That “Window to Life” did shine for 

us with her existence,


Yes, we can be amazed by the phenomenal, incredible spiritual exuberance of little creatures, big and small. Psalm 104, verses 24 and 25: "Oh Lord, how manifold are thy works!


That “Window” showed exuberance for life, Always Spunky.  And, in our quietude she would gently come to ask, with her little swipe of her paw to ask for a “scratchy, scratchy”, putting her little head forward.


Undaunted, in the days, if not weeks, before she became gravely sick, 

she asked for a little further attention.  It was a signal for the Love of Animal’s Window.

She knew.


“Do not go gentle into that good night”.  


The first Vet’s shot only wagged her tail.  Vet came 20 minutes later with stethoscope, Spunky said “wahangh don’t touch me”.


 “Do not go gently into that good night”.

 The second shot closed our Window to Little Spunky.


Spunky’s loving memories gives the Window full circle to life.


Left to Loving Memories.  Spunky.


Tuesday, March 15, 2022

The Profoundest Of Numbers Is 7


The world’s favorite number is Seven. 


We have the Seven Hills of Rome, Seven Hills of Istanbul. Seven days in a week, Seven Seas, Seven Continents, 7UP, 7-Eleven, James Bond 007, The Seven Year Itch, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the 7th Inning Stretch to name just a few …


Alexander the Great brought 70 Greek scholars from Athens to Alexandria Egypt in 300 BC to translate the Hebrew Bible to Greek called the Septuagint (from the Latin meaning 70).  


Profoundly, Seven is the number of completeness and perfection being tied directly to God’s creation of all things. The word “created” is used 7 times describing God’s creative work: Genesis 1:1, 21, 27 three times; 2:3; 2:4. St. Paul had his epiphany 7 years after the Crucifixion of Jesus. 


God's Sabbath is on the 7th day of the week. 


The Christian Bible was originally divided into 7 major divisions: 

  1. Law
  2. History
  3. Psalms 
  4. Prophecy of the Old Testament 
  5. General Epistles 
  6. Epistles of Paul
  7. Revelation

This profound number has always been in my thoughts and research since my travels through Asia Minor, Greece, while serving in the United States Army Security Agency stationed in Ankara Turkey 1963-1964. 


Just a few thoughts on the number seven from a numbers person who was a business school graduate working with numbers my entire life.


And, this proud father was blessed with a daughter Renee, born 7-7-77 and watched the Delivery Nurse look at the wall clock to record 7:14 AM.