t sight. My dad on the other hand liked her, but insisted I try to find her a home. That week I began talking and praying a lot to God. I asked him to help me. At the end of the week she began to grow on him and he began to love her too. I thought to myself that God had answered my prayers. “Snowball” is thirteen months old now and about ten pounds. I thank God for bringing her into my life. I feel that while I performed an altruistic deed, God rewarded me anyway.I feel as though this personal experience is similar to what Karl Rahner would call transcendental because presented with an opportunity, I chose to make a difficult decision, but one, which I felt, was right in the situation. By choosing as I did, I affirmed myself as a transcendental being, one, which can go beyond the either/or systems, defined in this world. ...
