Sweet Love

A baby  
 hippopotamus that survived the tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast has     
 formed a strong bond with a giant male century-old tortoise, in an animal
 facility in the port city of Mombassa , officials said.                   
                                                                          
 The hippopotamus, nicknamed Owen and weighing about 300 kilograms (650   
 pounds), was swept down Sabaki River into the Indian Ocean , then forced  
 back to shore when tsunami waves struck the Kenyan coast on December 26, 
 before wildlife rangers rescued him.  

 "It is incredible. A-less-than-a-year-old hippo has adopted a male       
 tortoise, about a century old, and the tortoise seems to be very happy   
 with being a 'mother'," ecologist Paula Kahumbu, who is in charge of     
  Lafarge Park , told AFP.

 "After it was swept and lost its mother, the hippo was traumatized. It had
 to look for something to be a surrogate mother. Fortunately, it landed on
 the tortoise and established a strong bond. They swim, eat and sleep     
 together," the ecologist added. "The hippo follows the tortoise exactly  
 the way it follows its mother. If somebody approaches the tortoise, the  
 hippo becomes aggressive, as if protecting its biological mother," Kahumbu added

"The hippo is a young baby, he was left at a very tender age and by      
 nature, hippos are social animals that like to stay with their mothers for
 four years," he explained.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments
 that take our breath away.

This is a real story that shows that our differences don't matter much   
 when we need the comfort of another.  We could all learn a lesson from   
 these two creatures of God, Look beyond the differences and find a way to
 walk the path together.