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Yancey Wows Foxes

Philip Yancey, Soul Survivor, How My Faith Survived the Church, Doubleday, 2001 pp. 49, 50.
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Category: Christian Living
ISBN: 0385502745
Keywords: foxes, Colorado, St. Francis, kits, Pied Piper, Eiseley, beauty, Christ, glimpse, Doubleday, Yancey, Philip Yancey

"I have had my own encounters with foxes, now that I live in Colorado. When three kits were born in a den across a ravine, I fancied myself a latter-day St. Francis and decided to befriend them. I sat near their den on a cushion and wrote my books and articles until soon the kits became accustomed to me. (The first time, I announced my undetected presence by saying, 'Hi!' and they bolted in the air as if struck by lightning) They peered at me inquisitively, golden eyes alert, ears twitching to every sound, their unscarred red coats glistening in the sun. Eventually the three began following me and I felt like the Pied Piper. If I stopped, they stopped, and hid behind a rock or bush. If I ran, they ran too. If I sat for a picnic lunch, they surrounded me and watched me eat.

As the summer progressed, I would stand in my driveway and whistle; on command, the three handsome young foxes came bounding across the ravine. They stalked butterflies in a patch of wildflowers, batting at them like a cat. They gave clumsy chase to wily squirrels. They dodged in and out of the spray of the sprinklers watering our grass. They stood on their hind legs and lapped water from our birdbath--once jumping back in alarm when a skim of ice reflected their own faces. If I threw a tennis ball, one would chase it down and take off running, the other two in hot pursuit.

All summer I had three companions. As I weeded the garden, cut the grass, or read the mail in a hammock, they followed my every move. If I ate lunch on our wooden balcony, they would climb the steps to join me. If I sat outdoors to write, they would observe me for a while, then curl up, white-tipped tails folded across their eyes, and go to sleep. I felt a thrilling flashback to Eden, when fear had not yet arisen between the species, and a flash-forward to heaven, when the lion shall lie down with the lamb and the fox shall curl up with the writer. I learned, like Eiseley, that at the heart of the universe a smile is found. 'The beauty of the world,' said Simon Weil, 'is Christ's tender smiles for us coming through matter.' We glimpse it only rarely on this defaced planet, but that glimpse reveals as much reality as all the theology books stacked together."

SoAmazing Review: As you read Yancey's reflections on life in Soul Survivor, you may develop a similar affinity to the red-haired author as did the three, little, red-coated foxes.

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