St. Columba
his blessings and the white horse.
Animals
have a sensitivity that is quite remarkable. I know someone who is blind who
has a guide dog. The dog is not only obedient to its master and disciplined to
knowing what it should do but is sensitive and even anticipating the needs of
its master. It is known that a dog’s acute sense of smell is sensitive to human
emotion, anxiety and depression and has the ability to detect ailments and
disease. Horses too can read human facial expressions. They possess a gift that
can distinguish human mood.
The
white horse which had pulled the wagon for the saint to bless the Island of
Iona came to Columba and laid its head on the saint’s chest. It began to whinny
and cry. It seemed to know that the saint was ill. One of the monks wanted to
take the horse away but St Columba refused: “Let him alone, for he loves me.
Let him pour out his tears of grief. You are a man with a rational soul….but
this dumb creature, possessing no reason* has been told by the Creator Himself
that I am about to leave him.”
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