Janice Hensley's Animal Guides
Giraffe
Love of eating
fuel self
Stretching man past himself, the giraffe shows man how to reach for that beyond his reach and be rationed within by it.
Standing tall behind man, the giraffe adds height to man, vastly affecting man's ability to reach past himself.
Yearning for man to increase his providence, the giraffe stretches always to naturally provide the use of man's capacity to respond and rebound to any need he has.
Waiting for man's request of self, the giraffe wends himself throughout man's love of strength, melding it with his love of self. With extreme patience, the giraffe replenishes man's needs with all that is needed for man to continue his own growth.
Knowing, by doing, the giraffe welcomes need in man as a way of strengthening man's responses to self. The inner quality of man becomes well-formed and able to stretch resiliently with any need man has to refuel, resource and make himself wiser.
Praying for man's care to be received by the gods, the giraffe raises his head toward the god's place in order to gain their attention. He stretches man in the same way for the same purpose. Using caring as a means to strengthen the love between man and himself, the giraffe offers his own ability to value all that he can reach—to man, so that man may always reach beyond himself with confidence and vitality.
Or, that man may discover how much more there is within himself, is the joy the giraffe feels in anticipation each time man returns to his guidance. | 
