Gracia Fay Ellwood's recent Editorial in her online journal "Peaceable Table" is entitled "The Living and The Deceased: Part I: A Cloud of Witnesses." In it she tells the story of a pig named Gabriel whose cries of pain after his murder were heard by the family while they were dining on his body. This event caused most of the family to stop eating meat.

Gracia Fay discusses other important and intriguing evidence suggesting life after death for both human beings and animals. I think most of us feel intuitively that prayers for animals after they have died are essential on many levels. The editorial takes it a step further as Gracia Fay implores us to also pray for the people involved in the cruelty. Rather than add to the violence in the energy field, it is our job to effectively reduce it by sending love to the perpetrators as well as the animals.

"Prayer for animals and their exploiters and killers might be seen as the inner side of our this-worldly work toward the dismantling of the evil systems.," she writes. And here we are, joined together, as the article advises, carrying forth the vision of a world free of violence toward all life and praying as One for Love to overcome all fear in all hearts. Thank you for being a precious and powerful part of the Prayer Circle for Animals.