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\"Hand<\/p>\n\n

About eight years ago, long before Chico appeared in our lives, I developed a habit of praying with Hennessy.\u00a0 It came about, apparently, just by chance, but now that I look back on it, I\u2019m sure that it was quite intentional on her part, and \u2013 probably \u2013 intentional on the part of those angels who watch over us, and urge us to better behavior and a life richer in spiritual elements and elevated thoughts.<\/p>\n

\"Mother<\/p>\n

When I was a little tyke, I used to pray daily with my mother.\u00a0 It was a lovely prelude to a beautiful evening, a moment of soulful peace in a troubled world.\u00a0 My parents, who were intensely political beings, never ceased to worry about the nature of events at home and abroad, and it seemed that there were always serious problems brewing.\u00a0\u00a0 Poor as we were, poor as church-mice, there was always a monthly contribution to the political movement for black independence, and every March on Washington in support of equality for all, every effort to provide food and clothing and homes for disadvantaged youngsters, sent us all to the penny-jar to figure out what we could exchange at the supermarket for dollars, to help and support and send our good wishes.\u00a0 We prayed for the poor and the disadvantaged, and so I never thought of us as actually being poor.\u00a0 Dad used to say, \u201cI\u2019ve often been broke, but I\u2019ve never been poor.\u201d\u00a0 He saw \u201cpoor\u201d as a state of mind, a giving-up, a defeat.\u00a0 We never had much money, but we were never defeated and poor. \u00a0\u00a0Somehow, there was always food, always heat in the coldest winters, and always enough money to replace broken \u2018cello strings and warped string instrument bridges.\u00a0 And there was always music, food for the soul and the heart: string quartets, sonatas, and the endless sound of diligent scales, arpeggios and earnestly repeated passages seeking greater grace and eloquent shape.<\/p>\n

\"Boy<\/p>\n

So we prayed.\u00a0 Mom and I prayed at the edge of the bed, and our prayers were filled with hope for the poor, and tomorrow\u2019s worries, and gratitude for the day\u2019s accomplishments.\u00a0 How fortunate I was to have those moments with her, and how I loved her nearness to me, and the warmth and intelligence of her words and ideas.\u00a0 And as I grew up, I continued to pray, and despite occasional lapses and periods of doubt, I prayed often and often fervently.\u00a0 In fact, I should say that I often needed desperately to pray, as life was pretty tough at times.<\/p>\n

\"Mother<\/p>\n

One especially worrisome evening, I was in the smallest room in my house\u2026yup, the bathroom\u2026.and praying with my head on the cold ceramic floor.\u00a0 It\u2019d been a terrible day, and the next morning I\u2019d lose my electricity.\u00a0 I just didn\u2019t know what to do.\u00a0 There was a knock \u2013 or rather, a scratch \u2013 on the door, and I got up, sighing, and opened it.\u00a0 There was Hennessy, slowly wagging her tail, and looking quizzically at me.\u00a0 \u201cCome on in, Henny-Benny,\u201d I said.\u00a0 She sauntered in on silent pads (\u201cshe walks like a Chinese Princess,\u201d said one of my observant friends; and indeed, she did) and lay down on the bathroom shower-mat.\u00a0 It was green, and a love woody contrast to her tree-brown fur.\u00a0 \u201cWould you like to pray with me, Henny?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n

\"Hennessy<\/p>\n

She looked at me like I was crazy\u2026.not to ask, but to think she\u2019d say \u201cNo.\u201d\u00a0 She put her head down across her paw, and her eyes closed half-way.\u00a0 I snuggled in next to her head, and slowly began the Lord\u2019s Prayer.\u00a0 \u201cOur Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name\u2026.\u201d I whispered, nearly under my breath. Hennessy purred\u2026a sound I don\u2019t ever remember her making before\u2026really more like a loud, comfortable cat\u2019s purr.\u00a0 \u201cThy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.\u201d\u00a0 She snuggled closer to me, wiggled her head next to mine, and I could hear her purring and breathing as I prayed half-aloud.\u00a0 \u201cGive us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses,\u201d I whispered, \u201cand lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil\u2026.for Thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory forever\u2026Amen.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 And I hugged and kissed her.\u00a0 She purred more loudly, and was comfortable, happy, calm.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I got up.\u00a0 \u201cThank you, dear heart. Let\u2019s do that often, many times a day.\u201d\u00a0 She looked up and agreed.\u00a0 And so we did\u2026before meals, after meals, during the night, during the daylight.\u00a0 It was has been, remains, a wonderful habit, timeless moments of great joy, great peace.\u00a0 Mother would be proud and happy\u2026happy at the presence of my appreciation for her soul in Henny\u2019s.\u00a0 The next morning, there was a check for over $1,000 in the mailbox, from a friend who decided to invest in my little company.\u00a0 I deposited the check promptly, and the electricity never went off.<\/p>\n

\"Chico<\/p>\n

I prayer, occasionally, with Chico.\u00a0 He was calm, quiet, and affectionate, and we both loved the time together.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t do it often, because somehow I felt it was kind of \u201ccheating\u201d on Hennessy, as prayer was a uniquely special time for her and me.\u00a0 One day, after Chico and I had prayed with especial earnestness (for the life and soul of a relative who seemed sure to die of brain cancer), I sat on the floor next to Chico and asked him about prayer.\u00a0 I was certain he would know far more about it than I, galactic traveler that he was, and in endless linked communication with the Universal Brain, or \u201cUbee\u201d as the Woggs call it.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cDo you think, Chico, that you can change the world with prayer?\u00a0 The world around you, and the world \u2013 the bigger world \u2013 itself?\u201d\u00a0 A look of faraway thought and calm came over his face, a look I saw sometimes, when he was pursuing truly deep thought, the thought of billenia of Wogg wisdom and experience.\u00a0 At that very instance, despite his eternal youth, Chico looked very, very old, as old as the stars, and as distant.\u00a0 I waited patiently.\u00a0 I knew he had heard me, and wanted to give me a well-considered response.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cLet me ask you a few questions, and I think we\u2019ll both find the answers,\u201d he said, in a kind of Socratic manner.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t an unusual approach for him, as he is ever the teacher, the explorer, the seeker and the compassionate minister of learning and wisdom.\u00a0 \u201cDo you remember the passages in both the Old and New Book of the Holy Words,\u201d he said (that was what he always called the Bible\u2026I never asked him why, but I surely knew what he meant), \u201cin which people are raised from the dead, those who are presumed dead, and may really be dead?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I thought for a moment, to collect my memories, and then said, slowly, slowly, \u201cYes, yes I remember some of them, maybe not all.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cTell me about them,\u201d he asked quietly, as if he\u2019d not heard about them previously.\u00a0 \u201cWell,\u201d I started slowly, \u201cthere\u2019s Elijah and the woman\u2019s young son, and I think that Elisha also raised a woman\u2019s son from the dead.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cYup, said Chico, \u201cthe Shunamite woman\u2019s son.\u201d\u00a0 I looked up surprised\u2026Chico hadn\u2019t ever before demonstrated such direct knowledge to me, and it was a new experience to hear him speak so quietly, reverently, about the subject.<\/p>\n

\"Universe<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd if I remember correctly, there\u2019s the story of a dead man who sprang to life upon being buried next to Elijah!\u201d\u00a0 \u201cYes, you\u2019re right,\u201d he said.\u00a0 \u201cThere is life in the very throes of death itself.. they are all of a unity.\u201d\u00a0 I wanted to think about this, and I knew then, and know now, that there is a deep, deep wisdom in his words that is bedrock upon which the universe itself it built.\u00a0 \u201cPerhaps there is no death,\u201d I said.\u00a0 \u201cPerhaps.\u00a0 A subject for another time.\u00a0 Tell me about other events you remember.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cOK\u2026there\u2019s the funeral that Christ runs into on the road, and brings a woman\u2019s son back to life, and the famous raising of Barabbas from the dead after three days in the crypt.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cRight on,\u201d said Chico.\u00a0 \u201cAnd?\u201d \u201cWell,\u201d I thought aloud, \u201cthere\u2019s the actual re-emergence of Christ Himself, of course, after the third day again\u2026must be a magic number, three\u2026(Chico nodded quietly, and his tail wagged ever so slightly)\u2026and I think Peter raised someone from the dead, and so did St. Paul\u2026the guy who tumbled down a few stories and died and they thought he was a demon.\u00a0 Silly guys\u2026.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cYes, yes indeed,\u201d mumbled Chico, almost to himself, \u201cI remember those, and should have been there, but I was on another mission far, far away from those days.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Galactic<\/p>\n

\u201cSo,\u201d said Chico with a hard, quiet, intense look into my blue eyes, with his bichromatic two, \u201cwas a profound element of reality profoundly altered by the actions and prayers of holy saints?\u201d\u00a0 \u201cSurely,\u201d I said. \u201cAnd further, my dear friend, what do you think is more difficult to do with prayer? To raise someone from the dead, or to shape and alter the potential future pathways of reality?\u201d\u00a0 He looked quietly at me, and waited.\u00a0 No tail wagged, no ear or eye budged.\u00a0 I thought.\u00a0 I felt like a kid in a grade-school Spelling Bee, faced with an unknown word.\u00a0 I blinked, and swallowed.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m honestly not sure,\u201d I warbled.\u00a0 \u201cI suppose that raising someone from the dead somehow alters both the past and the future, changing death into sleep and creating life out of death.\u00a0 So the prayer has to work in two different directions of time\u2026past and future \u2013 and even present, of course. Shaping future reality would only involve one direction, it seems to me.\u00a0 Am I right?\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Time\"<\/p>\n

As always, Chico was a bit hard to read as he sat there, military-style, looking at me and through me. Then he kinda came back to earth, and wagged his tail.\u00a0 \u201cI like your answer,\u201d he smiled, \u201cand I think you\u2019re correct.\u00a0 Please consider that the key element in all of these transformations from death-to-life involve a great deal of compassionate love and care.\u00a0 In all the cases you mentioned, and in all the ones I know of, the desire to abnegate suffering \u2013 of the living \u2013 and create joy from sorrow in a very pointed, careful way, is central to the meaning of the miracles.\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cI see what you mean, Chico,\u201d I answered. \u201cAll of the stories are filled with compassion for the suffering living, those who remain lonely, lonely on earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Two<\/p>\n

\u201cSo let me tell you a story, since we\u2019re on the right track here,\u201d said Chico.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s a story about love and love between two friends.\u00a0 In this case, the friends are dogs.\u00a0 \u201cWow,\u201d I said. \u201cI know that dogs have friendly relationships with one another, and even familial love, but prayerful and compassionate love, love that transforms death to life?\u00a0 With other dogs?\u201d\u00a0 \u201cYes,\u201d he said, \u201clisten and you\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a story printed in a magazine,\u201d started Chico. \u201cThe magazine is called \u201cModern Dog\u201d and it\u2019s filled with all sorts of tales and neat stuff about your canines.\u00a0 The guy who wrote the story \u2013 and it\u2019s very much a true story \u2013 is named Coren, and I\u2019ve visited with him.\u00a0 He is a wonderful man, and a true friend of dogs and of Woggs.\u00a0 He knows about us, about me, and is someone I respect and call \u2018friend,\u2019 as I do you,\u201d smiled Chico.\u00a0 I stroked his head in thanks.<\/p>\n

\"Little<\/p>\n

Chico continued.\u00a0 \u201cStanley Coren,\u201d he said, \u201cwrote a completely true and verifiable story about a Labrador retriever named Mickey, who lived in a house with another smaller dog, a Chihuahua, named Piercy.\u00a0 They were great friends, and did everything together, from eating to bathing to chasing frogs to loving their family members.\u00a0 Mickey, of course, was bigger, and somewhat older than Piercy.\u00a0 One day in summer, when he simply wasn\u2019t paying attention to the sidewalk and the street \u2013 they lived in the city \u2013 Piercy ran into traffic and was hit by a car.\u00a0 He was killed instantly.\u00a0 The family ran out, the driver stopped, and they carried Piercy back to the house, crying and mourning.\u00a0 As they were sure he was dead, they put him into a sack, and buried him in a shallow grave in the backyard.\u00a0 He was, after all, a small dog, and a deep grave wasn\u2019t needed.<\/p>\n

\"Black<\/p>\n

Mickey looked mournful and gray, and sat by the grave.\u00a0 In fact, Mickey wouldn\u2019t move, and stayed at the grave as the sun went down, the moon and the stars came up, and still he was motionless, sitting by the grave-side.\u00a0 The family was wise, and wonderful, and they let him stay there, touched and still crying.\u00a0 Everyone went to bed, sadly went to bed.\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Chico looked up at the sky, and gathered his words.\u00a0 I heard him sigh\u2026.not a sad sigh, but an emotional sigh, a sigh of breath, and life, and deep feeling.\u00a0 \u201cAround about 2:00 AM, when the moon was high,\u201d said Chico, \u201cthe father of the family heard some odd noises in the garden, and grabbed a flashlight and his bathrobe, and went outside into the cool September night.\u00a0 The moon\u2019s light showed him that the grave had been dug open, and the sack torn apart.\u00a0 There was Mickey, feverishly licking Piercy all over, nuzzling him and licking him and gently whining, with great energy.\u00a0 The father wept and wept, and went to Mickey and stroked him as Mickey licked and nuzzled the dead Piercy.\u00a0 Suddenly, the father realized that Piercy was shaking, then moving, then his eyes opened and he got up, and shook himself, and wagged his tail.\u00a0 He was alive.\u00a0 Mickey and Piercy wagged their tails at each other, and ran around the yard.\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Chico paused.\u00a0 \u201cNow tell me,\u201d he said, \u201ctell me, dear friend, whether the prayer of a righteous and compassionate friend transcends, in power, the nature of life and death, time and space.\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I was crying very quietly, and my words hung in my throat.\u00a0 I swallowed.\u00a0 \u201cYes, yes,\u201d I said, and I sighed.\u00a0 \u201cYes, the prayer of a righteous being will be heard in Heaven, and can obviously shape reality, both past and present.\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Chico paused and looked me deep in the face, a look of ancient timelessness and enduring affection.\u00a0 \u201cGo thou and do likewise,\u201d he said.\u00a0 I hesitated, fearful of being thought incredulous and unbelieving.\u00a0 \u201cYou mean, raise the dead?\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Past_and_Present_Number_Three\"<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, yes,\u201d said Chico. \u201cNow you know it can be done, and the most powerfully cast pathways of the past and the future can be reshaped and redrawn, by the force of friendship and love, in the context of infinite belief.\u00a0 Cultivate infinite belief, affirm faith in the nature of endless life and enduring compassion, and you will be able to choose the best future pathways, and reshape the errors of the past.\u00a0 With my love,\u201d he said.\u00a0 \u201cAll with my love, and always.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Prayer<\/p>\n

In my heart of hearts, I thanked God a million ways for the miracle of Chico in our lives.<\/h2>\n

How lucky we are, how blessed\u2026..and<\/h2>\n

how clear it was to me that everyone<\/h2>\n

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