He prayeth well, who loveth well

Both man and bird and beast.

He prayeth best, who loveth best

All things both great and small;

For the dear God who loveth us,

He made and loveth all.

From: The Rime of the Ancient Mainer, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Sam)

This is the lesson learned and shared by the only surviving crew member of a ship that was pulled from England to the South Pole , then to the Pacific ocean and then mysteriously back home in this very long epic and classic poem.  This ancient Mariner  is now left to tell the gruesome ghostly tale of Life on that boat...a karmic debt created by his using a cross bow to kill an albatross who had befriended the crew, gave them hope and was seen as a good luck charm. This resulted in instant Karma, though I am not sure "Karma" would have been a word Coleridge would have used. :)  The crew member had to watch all his crew starve, thirst ( thus the line "Water, water everywhere") and perish only to return to life in a ghostly way while he craved for a death that never came.  His karmic debt now requires him to tell the haunting  story to someone every night in order to avoid being haunted by that memory  throughout the day of what he had done and what had followed. The  teaching he wants and needs to leave behind to those he selects to tell it to,  is that it is important to love all of God's creatures. It is so important , To do no harm!

Hmm! Felt compelled to put that here for some reason.

All is well! .