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I\u2019ve already seen the signs: \u201cBlessing of the Animals<\/a>\u2014This Sunday\u201d.<\/p>\n

In honor of St. Francis\u2014who preached to chickadees, tamed a wolf terrorizing a town, and welcomed chipmunks onto his shoulders\u2014many churches will be offering animal blessings this Sunday. They will invite dogs, cats, gerbils, lizard, cockatoos, and more, into their sanctuaries\u2014or at least into their front yards. They will sing All Creatures of Our God and King<\/em>. They will invoke the name of Francis. And they will bless these furry and feathered friends. The children will love it.<\/p>\n

What they won\u2019t do? Encourage kids to steal.<\/p>\n

Maybe they should.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Francis the Thief<\/h2>\n

Before he ever preached to an animal, Francis criticized the burgeoning merchant economy of 13th<\/sup> Century Italy. He grieved the way the economy put money into the pockets of some while leaving others begging along roadsides.<\/p>\n

One of Francis\u2019s first acts on his way to becoming St. <\/em>Francis was to steal fabric from his father\u2019s business and sell it. One account says he gave the money to a church, another says he offered it to the poor. Either way, he didn\u2019t seem to appreciate the notion of property<\/em>. The fabric\u2014and the money it fetched when sold\u2014wasn\u2019t his to give away.<\/p>\n

He did it anyway.<\/p>\n

This act marked the beginning of what we might call Francis\u2019s conversion\u2014the 180 degree turn God\u2019s Spirit was working in his life: a turn from a world in which a human economy allows people to say, \u201cThis is mine, I earned it, I can do with it what I want,\u201d to a vision of a divine economy in which all that is belongs to God, is oriented toward God, and should be used for God\u2019s purposes.<\/p>\n

And, as Francis found out, living in that<\/em> kind of economy can get you in trouble.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

A New Vision Emerges<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Unsurprisingly, Francis\u2019s father did not think highly of this act of generosity. He flew into a rage, and Francis absconded. He hid for several weeks in a small cave, where only one friend knew where he was. He ate what little food his friend brought him, and he prayed. As one early biographer put it, \u201cThe Lord sent him such consolations and delight as he had never known.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no way to know exactly what happened to Francis in that cave, but I love the way G. K. Chesterton, in his biography of Francis, describes his new attitude when he emerged. Chesterton suggests that, when Francis came out, he saw the world upside down:<\/p>\n

The effects of this on his attitude toward the actual world were really as extravagant as any parallel can make them. . . . If a man saw the world upside down, with all the trees and towers hanging head downwards as in a pool, one effect would be to emphasize the idea of dependence<\/em>. There is a Latin and literal connection; for the very word dependence only means hanging.<\/p>\n

Francis saw the world\u2014all of creation, even himself and, presumably, his father and his father\u2019s fabric\u2014as suspended from its divine source. He saw things as they really are\u2014coming from God, belonging to God, to be used for God. And that kind of vision doesn\u2019t jibe with the way things typically work.<\/p>\n

No wonder we bless the animals\u2014that feels safe. Celebrating Francis-the-thief would contribute to the corruption of minors.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Of a Piece<\/strong><\/h2>\n

But Francis-who-blesses-the-animals and Francis-who-steals-the-fabric are one and the same Francis; these two aspects of his character are of a piece. They flow from his radical reorientation.<\/p>\n

Francis discovered a kinship with the rest of creation\u2014Brother Sun, Sister Moon, Second-Cousin Squirrel\u2014because he saw the trees, wolves, cockatoos, and gerbils as existing in God, as all things do. He peered into their divine heart\u2014the same divine heart in his father and in the poor beggar. But the human economy\u2014This is mine! I earned it! You can\u2019t have it!<\/em>\u2014blinds us to this truth.<\/p>\n

So when we bless the animals, we\u2019re not just doing something cute, and we\u2019re not just putting at risk the sanctuary carpet. We\u2019re glimpsing the heart of reality. We\u2019re practicing radical kinship. We\u2019re being a bit subversive.\u00a0 We\u2019re learning that not only the animals, but our very lives and <\/em>our things, come from God, belong to God, and should be aimed toward God\u2019s purposes.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Stealing St. Francis<\/strong><\/h2>\n

When my wife and I got married, she bought me a little statue of St. Francis holding a basket. I filled the basket with birdseed and placed it in the front yard of our house. I loved that statue of Francis, loved how he greeted me each time I approached the front door. And I loved how, from the dining room table, I could watch the squirrels, chipmunks, and birds eat their fill as I ate mine.<\/p>\n

When we sold the house 13 years ago, we forgot Francis. He stayed in that yard, and I wanted him back.<\/p>\n

Last summer, when our family visited that town to see friends, we drove by the house to show our kids. \u201cBoys,\u201d I said, slowing down as we passed, \u201cthis is where we lived when you were born.\u201d And then I stopped. I saw Francis, my <\/em>Francis. He\u2019d been moved from the island of azaleas in the front yard to near the bushes beneath the dining room window.<\/p>\n

I glanced at our eight-year-old daughter, quick and small. She could pull off a heist if anyone could\u2014dash into the yard, pluck Francis from among the bushes, and jump into the van before anyone saw her. And I\u2019d never driven a getaway car before. It felt exciting.<\/p>\n

Until I remembered\u2014that\u2019s not the kind of thief Francis was. He didn\u2019t steal in order to own. He stole because what his father possessed wasn\u2019t being used for its divine purpose. It had lost its place in Gods economy.<\/p>\n

So we drove away, and I was left wondering, not whether I would every have my Francis back\u2014I won\u2019t\u2014but whether I could let this vision of Francis shape my life. Would I ever really <\/em>see the world the way Francis did?<\/p>\n

And would I be willing to show that world to my kids, knowing the trouble seeing the world this way could cause them?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The Rev. Dr. L. Roger Owens is associate professor of Christian spirituality and ministry at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and teaches courses in the\u00a0<\/em>MDiv<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>Doctor of Ministry<\/em><\/a>, and\u00a0<\/em>Continuing Education<\/em><\/a>\u00a0programs. Before coming to PTS he served urban and rural churches for eight years in North Carolina as co-pastor with his wife, Ginger. He has written multiple books including\u00a0<\/em>The Shape of Participation: A Theology of Church Practices\u00a0which was called \u201cthis decades best work in ecclesiology\u201d by\u00a0<\/em>The Christian Century. His latest work is\u00a0<\/em>Threshold of Discovery: A Field Guide to Spirituality in Midlife (Church Publishing Inc., 2019).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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