{"id":9791,"date":"2021-12-06T21:47:25","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T01:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christinekowalanimalfamily.com\/?p=9791"},"modified":"2021-12-06T21:47:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T01:47:31","slug":"what-the-highlander-taught-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/index.php\/2021\/12\/06\/what-the-highlander-taught-me\/","title":{"rendered":"What The Highlander Taught Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>First it&#8217;s good to be back. We&#8217;re having a lot of wind today. Crazy wind. I&#8217;ve always thought of wind as God.<\/strong>\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0I love the wind. Caleb&#8217;s all in, as long as he&#8217;s being carried. And Shannon loves it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_1986-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_1986-copy.jpg 640w, https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_1986-copy-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Let me introduce you to a friend of ours. We see her regularly on our walks.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"446\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_2046-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_2046-2.jpg 446w, https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_2046-2-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>She&#8217;s pretty beautiful ,<\/strong>\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0for those of you who don&#8217;t know, although I know many of you do,<strong>\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0she&#8217;s a Highlander Cow.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>And she&#8217;s got friends that hang with her. But she always has a special nod for those that go by her.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0<br><br><br>I of course always talk to and wave and nod to all of the Animals that I see.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0<strong>The other highlander cows told me I talk to much, make too much noise and movement trying to get their attention.<\/strong><br><br><br><br><strong>So one day\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0Caleb, Shannon and I were out. I was upset that day and so I had stopped and she was looking at me with that beautiful strong gaze and then I felt it.<\/strong>\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0I felt and saw her Love Light Spirit expand out of her and move towards and into me.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You know that way Animals make you feel good. But she was showing me how to do it. I&#8217;d forgotten I used to do that years ago.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><br>You can start by closing your eyes and feeling the energy\/Love Light God, Breath, Your word, inside of your body then you think of it expanding in your body and then out of your body.&nbsp;<\/strong>And once you&#8217;ve done it a few times, it takes a bit of practice it feels really good. I&#8217;ll do a blog post on it&nbsp;&nbsp;another time and explain it better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>She expanded her love and light  spirit outside of her body to make me feel better. And to teach me how the Highlanders like to be greeted and understood.<\/strong>\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0Thank you good friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>As I work on living from that still small voice inside of me,&nbsp;I AM. I realize I&#8217;ve spent a great deal of my life not living that way,<\/strong>&nbsp;though thinking I was&nbsp;living that way but actually being the proverbial bull in the china shop. Maybe it should be the proverbial human in the china shop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I AM \/ YOU ARE\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0God Love Light Holy Sprit\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0Inside.<\/strong>\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0I am working on living from the God, your word, inside of me every moment of everyday. Like my friend the Highlander does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_2015-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_2015-rotated.jpg 480w, https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_2015-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>And like my Kids do<\/strong><br><br><br>Love And Light\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0<br><strong><br>Christine Kowal And The Animals<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First it&#8217;s good to be back. We&#8217;re having a lot of wind today. Crazy wind. I&#8217;ve always thought of wind as God.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0I love the wind. Caleb&#8217;s all in, as long as he&#8217;s being carried. And Shannon loves it. Let me introduce you to a friend of ours. We see her regularly on our walks.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 She&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/index.php\/2021\/12\/06\/what-the-highlander-taught-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What The Highlander Taught Me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[611],"class_list":["post-9791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-highlander"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9831,"href":"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9791\/revisions\/9831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}