{"id":20617,"date":"2021-10-05T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=20617"},"modified":"2021-10-05T10:07:48","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T14:07:48","slug":"the-emotional-intelligence-of-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=20617","title":{"rendered":"The Emotional Intelligence of Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FQbt9ADhCJc\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I wonder what I ought to tell you about the friendship there was between me and a falcon? <\/em>\u2014Carlo Carretto, <em>I, Francis<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Carlo Carretto (1910\u20131988) was a member of the Little Brothers of\nJesus, a community of contemplatives based on the spirituality of St. Francis\nof Assisi. In this meditation,<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Carretto speaks in Francis\u2019\nvoice, combining Francis\u2019 biography with what he might say to us today. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was in a certain hermitage, where I had withdrawn to pray in\npeace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I noticed that very nearby there was a falcon, with its nest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We became friends. . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then the falcon undertook to rouse me from my rest at the hour of\nprayer\u2014at midnight, and again at dawn for Lauds. . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He always performed his duty with precision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once he even went beyond the call of duty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had noticed that I was not feeling well\u2014and so he did not\nawaken me in the night, but only in the morning for Lauds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think God was guiding me by the falcon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can go ahead and smile. . . . But it happened to me, and I\ntook pleasure in it all, even going so far as to hold conversations with all\nmanner of creatures, and preach various sermons to them. . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I made an effort to make them understand that I was a friend. At\nfirst they were astounded and incredulous. But then they believed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And they drew near.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And they listened to me. . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was as if the dimensions of the Kingdom had been enlarged for\nme. . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was as if the number of my sisters and brothers had become\nmeasurelessly greater. [1]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Science is beginning to confirm the intuitions of mystics\nthroughout the ages, including Francis\u2014that we share kinship with animals.\nConsider the insights from the fascinating book <\/em>When\nElephants Weep<em>, which explores the emotional lives of animals. Author\nJeffrey Masson considers animal relationships that surely transcend mere\nsurvival and can even be called love:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lionesses baby-sit for one another just as house cats sometimes\ndo. . . . Elephants appear to make allowances for other members of their herd.\nOne African herd always traveled slowly because one of its members had never\nfully recovered from a broken leg suffered as a calf. A park warden reported\ncoming across a herd with a female carrying a small calf several days dead,\nwhich she placed on the ground whenever she ate or drank: she traveled very\nslowly and the rest of the elephants waited for her. . . . There appears to be\nso little survival value in the behavior of this herd, that perhaps one has to\nbelieve that they behaved this way just because they <em>loved <\/em>their grieving\nfriend who loved her dead baby, and wanted to support her. [2]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>[Richard:<\/em> <em>I think we know so little about our\nensouled universe.]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sarah Young\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>REMEMBER THAT JOY is not dependent on your circumstances. Some of\nthe world\u2019s most miserable people are those whose circumstances seem the most\nenviable. People who reach the top of the ladder career-wise are often\nsurprised to find emptiness awaiting them. True Joy is a by-product of living\nin My Presence. Therefore you can experience it in palaces, in prisons . . . anywhere.\nDo not judge a day as devoid of Joy just because it contains difficulties.\nInstead, concentrate on staying in communication with Me. Many of the problems\nthat clamor for your attention will resolve themselves. Other matters you must\ndeal with, but I will help you with them. If you make problem solving secondary\nto the goal of living close to Me, you can find Joy even in your most difficult\ndays. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HABAKKUK 3:17\u201319; 17Though the fig tree does not bud and there are\nno grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no\nfood, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, ^18yet\nI will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior. ^19The Sovereign\nLORD is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to\ntread on the heights<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 CHRONICLES 16:27\u2019 \u00b2\u2077Splendor and majesty are before him;\nstrength and joy are in his dwelling place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Young, Sarah. Jesus Calling Morning and Evening Devotional (Jesus Calling\u00ae)\n(p. 576). Thomas Nelson. 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