What does not bear its cross?

When God has mercy, it’s through human agency, except for that first instance: thanks for sewing the skins, also the gifts of consciousness, self-consciousness, and conscience, and we’ll make our way, getting a little better with practice; so maybe we’ll see you again in 7,000 years.

Sound good?

By then, we’ll be talking with the elephant, and the elephant will be teaching us, and, who knows but that the elephant will be different too.

We’d rather not have the suffering, but even more, we’d rather not have it go on if we can do something about it, even late but not too late.

One tries to be careful with anthropomorphism, keeping the elephant the elephant and the human the human, but as we grow our intellectual capacity and ability to comprehend others, including elephants and other members of the animal kingdom exhibiting highly developed sentience, it’s inevitable that we will find our intersections and mutual interests and perhaps another chamber in the world’s greater soul.

The prompt, rightly, had to do with the inerasable suffering already experienced by Raju.

http://www.eonline.com/news/557548/elephant-cries-tears-of-joy-after-being-rescued-after-50-years-of-suffering-and-abuse – 7/7/2014.

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