I do envisionings instead of New Year’s resolutions. Envisioning feels expansive and opens the way for creative possibilities to flow. In envisioning, instead of trying to push the river, we swim with the universal current. This year, I’m envisioning the Animal Messenger Sanctuary and me finding our forever home. Right now we live on a beautiful hilltop, but it’s a rental with multiple dwellings and we need a permanent place that is solely devoted to the sanctuary so we can implement all our plans for people and animals.
Gabriel the archangel
I am eager to arrive at our new home so I can fulfill two pledges I made to the animals. One was to Pegasus the miniature horse. She has not had a soul companion since the death of her beloved donkey Gabriel five years ago. She likes the donkeys who arrived soon after, but, as I write in my book What the Animals Taught Me, they are not her soul mates. She often grazes alone, which never happened in the days of Gabriel. I promised her that when we find our new home, I will be able to welcome a male miniature horse for her. I am aware of time passing, which is the reason for my eagerness to fulfill my pledge. She is in her mid twenties or older, and I would like her to have a good number of years of enjoying her new companion. I know the right horse for her will arrive but not until we have a larger barn for shelter and a place dedicated to the animals.
Raphael, Sylphide, and Ulysses
My other pledge was to the donkeys Sylphide and Raphael. For the same reasons, I have to wait until we arrive at our new home before I can fulfill this pledge. I promised them that I would try to find their family members and bring them to live with us. Where they were before, there were 7 donkeys living in a bad situation. I could only take two of them (Sylphide gave birth after arriving on the sanctuary, thus Ulysses). One was adopted by a neighbor, one died, and the rest went to other homes. I would at least like to offer a home to the lone donkey if I cannot find the other three.
Envisioning our mystical nature retreat with house, dry barn, plenty of acreage with safe fencing, autonomy, communion, and ample and accessible hay storage! 2012—an auspicious year for arrival.
