The Blessing of the Beasts

Summary

As the church Celebration of Creatures service approaches, Francesca the cockroach yearns to be there,
but Martin the skunk warns her against it:

“I don’t think that we are meant to be included, Francesca. It’s for the respectables, the cute and cuddlies. We are outcasts, my dear. They’ll never let us in. Can’t you just hear the humans shrieking as we walk down the aisle? They’d be fainting left and right.”

Francesca and Martin find a creative way into the church and learn that all of creation has value, purpose, and God’s blessing. Paraclete Press (2007).