Jennifer Skiff
Jennifer Skiff’s award-winning career as an international television journalist includes more than a decade as an investigative correspondent for CNN. Her specialty was the environment and among other industry honors, she has received the prestigious Environmental Media Award.
Passionate about animals and their welfare, she works with charities throughout the world to bring relief to abused and abandoned animals.
A cancer scare in her early thirties convinced Skiff that a Divine presence was active in her life. Her journalistic instincts took over and she began a quest to find out if others had similar experiences’. The result is her first book, God Stories, a collection of inspiring first-person accounts of miracle-like encounters with God.
Her second book, The Divinity of Dogs: True Stories of Miracles Inspired by Man's Best Friend, is a compilation of stories where people describe the moment they learned something profound about life from an experience with a dog. It is also part memoir where Skiff describes how her dogs have helped her though trials.
With her favorite Aussie and beloved dogs, Jennifer spends her life in perpetual summer between Maine and Australia.
“I've been offered proof of God's existence at regular intervals in my life through experiences so profound they've given goose bumps to atheists.”
“She wasn’t just a faithful friend, she was the closest thing to heaven I allowed myself to know. Through her I received joy in my heart and began to love others.”
“Dogs, for a reason that can only be described as divine, have the ability to forgive, let go of the past, and live each day joyously. It’s something the rest of us strive for.”
“There’s often a reason why people and dogs bite. It’s about self-protection. If we respect what we may not know about the suffering of others and look at them compassionately, we open the door that can lead to understanding.”
“As much as we look up at the stars and know there is more than life on earth, the divinity of dogs is just as unexplainable and profound. They may be the purest example of divine love in an earthly soul many of us ever experience. If we take their lead, open our hearts, and embrace their love, we may just find our own journey a lot more enlightening.”
“My dogs have been the reason I have woken up every single day of my life with a smile on my face.”
“You never know the hurt others endure in this world behind the closed windows of their life, or the joy a simple act of kindness can bring.”