Why Me?

My next awakening came quite slowly; it was not really a conscious act.  I had begun to pray … and maybe the answer to that prayer was a magazine article on Orthodox Monks … I was impressed with their total commitment to Christianity and their approach to prayer.  Sometime later, I found myself attending to some feral cats several miles from where we live.  I began to listen to a program called Father Knows Best, on EWTN Radio.

One of the first messages that I heard, talked about dropping your nets and following Jesus … I realized that doing such a thing would require a level of commitment that I had never really considered.  One of presenters described the intensity with which Jesus loves us … that struck a chord, because that was always been how I had described my love for animals … some external force seemed to provide the source of my love for animals … I felt like it flowed through me … I always felt more like a conduit than the source itself.

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