the feast day of st. francis of assisi

Do something beautiful for the earth and its wild creatures today.....

DOES EVERY CREATURE HAVE A SOUL?

A tool
in your hand I am, dear God,
the sweetest instrument you have shaped my being into.

What makes me now complete -
feeling the soul of every creature against
my heart.

Does every creature have a
soul?

Surely they do: for anything God has touched
will have life
forever,

and all creatures He
has held.

- St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226)