Celebrate the Mystery, Compassion Wonder
and Beauty of Animals
Take 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:
Basho • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Feng Chih • James Dickey • Meister Eckhart
St. Francis of Assisi • Joy Harjo
• Stanley Hauerwas • Jane Hirshfield • Galway
Kinnell • D. H. Lawrence • John Muir • Rumi
• Albert Schweitzer • Rabindranath Tagore •
Evelyn Underhill • Walt Whitman • and many more
“A jewel box of comfort and ecstasy,
reverence and wisdom. Powerful testimony to the different ways
that animals inspire us to worship our Creator.”
—Sy
Montgomery, author of The Wild Out Your Window
“A threshold to a deeper
understanding of God…. Allows us to experience the
relationships God has created between creatures in this Sacred
Circle of life.”
—Rt. Rev.
Mark MacDonald, Episcopal bishop of
Alaska
“Delightful … lovely …
timeless…. A book that pet lovers will
treasure.”
—Diana L.
Guerrero, author of What Animals Can Teach Us about Spirituality; founder of Ark
Animals
“Gives voice to the unspoken yet
eloquent expressions of prayer and praise offered daily in the
Animal Kingdom. The sights and sounds of the poetic imagery
linger long after we close this book.”
—Nancy
Sohn Swartz, author of In Our Image: God’s First Creatures and How Did the
Animals Help God?
