Who Do You Know Named "Molly?"
Photograph
© Pam Kaster
(photo
and full text, “Meet Molly”
Few of
us will forget the dramatic attempt to rescue “Barbaro,” the Kentucky Derby
winner after he pulled up in the Preakness with a strained leg. The horse
gained world-wide fame in losing his life. Nothing could be done. Yet, here is the story of Molly who survived
after Katrina and a vicious dog attack.
The
real story for me is the owners and the vets who have this spark of life in
them that will not “give up” on life itself. They refused to let the fires of life go out. Deep down in all of us is this instinct for
life. It goes far beyond our own instinct for survival. It gives life, that spark and will to live to
others. Molly’s hallmark did not stop at
her restoration. She went to Children’s hospitals as a living sign of hope.
In The
Road Less Travelled, M. Scott Peck writes that:
“Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of
nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love
is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies
choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.”
It was
one thing for these owners and vets to feel sorry for Molly and quite another
to act on those feelings to give life. Molly
can be the name for anyone!
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