Picture from Loving Animals, Healing Our World

Goodnight dear friends and family.
We really hope that you have all arrived safely at home and that you are relaxing and spending time with the ones you love most.

Prayers are going out tonight for all of those living beings who find themselves feeling broken and battered. No matter what life brings, we must keep fighting. No matter what obstacles appear, we must not go around them. We must not avoid them. We must fight through them in order to really grow as we were meant to. And then we must leave them behind. We must go on to a new day. We must triumph over each challenge. Even if we get scarred and tattered along the way, we have still made it through, and we are stronger for it. Only then, have we truly survived and conquered.

Our scars and wounds, whether emotional or physical, do not define us. We are defined by our hearts. We are defined by the love we give. We are defined by the way we treat others. We must never judge others just by what we see. We can never assume to know or understand another, unless we have walked in their shoes. If we judge others, by visual alone, than we are truly blind. We are not only hurting another when we judge them, but we are also hurting ourselves.

Stand above judgment and never let another’s judgment of you slow you down or make you question yourself. Only you should be the judge of yourself. And when you judge yourself, only look into your heart, not into a mirror. Touch others with your soul. Physical beauty fades, but if you give love and compassion and you genuinely do your best to make others smile and extend kind gestures, than the beauty within your soul, will never fade. You are at your most beautiful,when you are compassionate, loving and kind.

Small adjustments to our lifestyles, our diet, wardrobe and the products that we use, will mean the difference between life or death for millions of innocent animals around the world. Animals are earthly angels and they should be treated as such. God is watching over them very closely. Too many angels are suffering every single day and they do not deserve it. They have done nothing wrong. They are innocent. They are pure and they cannot defend themselves. Let us do our best to be their voice and to be their defenders. They need our help.

No lives will go in vain. No pain will go unnoticed. Amen.

Love from,
Jessica Lee Smith,
For Sammy & Family