“But ask the animals, and they will teach you,
    the birds of the air, and they will tell you;
 
ask the plants of the earth,[a] and they will teach you,
    and the fish of the sea will declare to you.
 
Who among all these does not know
    that the hand of the Lord has done this?
 
In his hand is the life of every living thing
    and the breath of every human being."

--Job 12:7-10

Dixie is a therapy horse, the very patient, calm, stable, non-reactive presence distressed children need. She came up to me to be petted. I happily obliged. And as is so often true, the counsel I got from her warmth and wise eyes was the greater gift.