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Their Healing Power: Listening to the Animals
This book is a compilation of many authors with stories about how an animal or animals have helped heal a human or some humans.
210 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1993
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Guideposts
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For more than 80 years, Guideposts has helped people discover the hope that only God provides. What began as a single magazine founded by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale and Ruth Stafford Peale in 1945 has grown into a ministry that meets people wherever they are with encouragement and prayer.
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Guideposts is a Christian ministry sharing stories and experiences that inspire your walk with God and spread His comfort to others.
For more than 80 years, Guideposts has helped people discover the hope that only God provides. What began as a single magazine founded by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale and Ruth Stafford Peale in 1945 has grown into a ministry that meets people wherever they are with encouragement and prayer.
Through books, products, programs and more, we annually help 6.5 million people find strength in Christ and comfort in connection. Our long history of outreach partnership has made us a vital source of inspiration for veterans, caregivers, people in recovery, and more. We have a bold vision to reach 17 million people (5% of the U.S. population) by 2031. Together with our customers, outreach partners, and donors, we can make a positive change in the world— one story, one prayer, one life at a time.
Learn more about our mission at guideposts.org
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August 27, 2026
This book was more upbeat than its predecessor and a light, easy read. It had something for every animal lover. I'll say the same thing I said about the first book in this series, which is that there are several stories that are snippets of other, longer stories. You get the gist, but you can tell you're missing the bigger picture and it does make the story lose some meaning.
Something this book had that the other didn't were multiple stories told in third person. I much prefer the first person storytelling for these types of books, as I always feel like we don't get the same genuine feeling from the third person point of view. I want to hear the stories from the people who lived them, more than a clinical or opinionated retelling of what happened to someone else. I liked the stories all the same, but against all the other stories, I felt like they faltered.
There were three in particular that really stood out to me, and all for different reasons. I'm ordering them in the way they appeared in the book.
* Max Leo's Great Adventure by Nona Hengen.
The story of Max returning to his owner was really touching, but I couldn't get over the fact that this woman left her car door open to go take pictures with her cat loose in the car. I am so glad she got her cat back, but the whole thing just seemed very bizarre and it felt like she took absolutely zero responsibility for her cat getting out in the first place. I don't think the cat had the great adventure that the author thought he did.
* Swimming With Dolphins by Rusty VanSICKLE
This story really touched me on a personal level. I've also suffered a stroke and deal with a great many medical problems because of it. Though I cannot swim with the dolphins, this tale gave me some hope that there are more possibilities out there than what I am now attuned to. It was a beautifully told story.
* The Chairman by Philip Gonzalez and Leonore Fleischer
Though I've always been a cat lover, I connected with this story. I've always been the person who stray cats find and have been caring for and fixing cats that are abandoned on our property, as well a the offspring of our neighbors' cats who they don't want to fix or properly care for. I reached my thirties unmarried and the cats came out of the woodwork. We currently have one cat who is missing toes, another one who has beat cancer but has to be given medications daily to keep things at bay, and a kitten I found in a trash pile who had to have emergency surgery. I felt this story in my bones.
Something this book had that the other didn't were multiple stories told in third person. I much prefer the first person storytelling for these types of books, as I always feel like we don't get the same genuine feeling from the third person point of view. I want to hear the stories from the people who lived them, more than a clinical or opinionated retelling of what happened to someone else. I liked the stories all the same, but against all the other stories, I felt like they faltered.
There were three in particular that really stood out to me, and all for different reasons. I'm ordering them in the way they appeared in the book.
* Max Leo's Great Adventure by Nona Hengen.
The story of Max returning to his owner was really touching, but I couldn't get over the fact that this woman left her car door open to go take pictures with her cat loose in the car. I am so glad she got her cat back, but the whole thing just seemed very bizarre and it felt like she took absolutely zero responsibility for her cat getting out in the first place. I don't think the cat had the great adventure that the author thought he did.
* Swimming With Dolphins by Rusty VanSICKLE
This story really touched me on a personal level. I've also suffered a stroke and deal with a great many medical problems because of it. Though I cannot swim with the dolphins, this tale gave me some hope that there are more possibilities out there than what I am now attuned to. It was a beautifully told story.
* The Chairman by Philip Gonzalez and Leonore Fleischer
Though I've always been a cat lover, I connected with this story. I've always been the person who stray cats find and have been caring for and fixing cats that are abandoned on our property, as well a the offspring of our neighbors' cats who they don't want to fix or properly care for. I reached my thirties unmarried and the cats came out of the woodwork. We currently have one cat who is missing toes, another one who has beat cancer but has to be given medications daily to keep things at bay, and a kitten I found in a trash pile who had to have emergency surgery. I felt this story in my bones.
May 6, 2015
My sister-in-law gave me this book almost a month ago (April 2015) because my mom had died. It has been a comforting book about animals healing us humans. I'm very thankful to her for giving this book to me. It's helped me a lot.
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