Everyone experiences turning points in their lives—those intense moments when emotions run high and everything changes at once. Sometimes these instances seem arbitrary or coincidental, but for some, these life-altering events are clearly influenced and even created by the animals they encounter. It’s as if these creatures, both domestic and wild, sense that their human counterparts need them and they answer the call. Now, writer Charlene R. Johnson and the therapist who enriched her perception of animal roles in human scripts, Michael Rebel, share the personal, touching, and magical accounts of those fortunate people whose lives have been touched by four-legged and winged guardians.
The commonly heard story of a pet saving its owner’s life by waking the person during a house fire is not told here. These stories convey much more than that. From the most subtle signs to the most dramatic encounters, these accounts reveal the deep spiritual and philosophical nature of relationships between humans and animals that change people’s lives. The stories are many and profoundly moving: the man who witnesses a bird lose its fear of humans in order to survive learns he too must cast his fears aside if he has any hope of embracing life again; the woman who changed her life after an encounter with an all white and thus mask-less raccoon revealed to her she was hiding behind her own mask. Sometimes even the strongest person can’t go the course alone; it’s at these times that Animal Angels heed the call, sharing their inherent wisdom and teaching lessons of life, love and acceptance.
ANIMAL ANGELS: True Tales of Creatures That Changed and Enriched People’s Lives.
By Charlene R. Johnson and Michael Rebel
New Horizon Press
October 2003
$14.95 Trade paper
ISBN: 0-88282-234-9
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Copyright 2010 Charlene Johnson