The Rescue

The day was hot! My neighbor gal and I were driving to a farm close by in my pickup with her horse trailer attached. Other farm friends had sold their place and needed a shelter for their four older ewes. To the rescue we were going!
Having sold the majority of my spinners flock, I had plenty of pasture and a sturdy barn, built by my husband, to care for the new additions.
It was more difficult than we expected to get the sheep loaded and before we had finished, one ewe had fallen when her master tried to pick her up and then another one knocked him down when rushing head long over him because she saw the other ewes already safely in the space provided in the trailer. We got them in without injury to anyone and the door finally closed. Opening the trailer door in my pasture, the ewes just stared at the open space looking out to my large, dry acreage, they were frozen with fear. They were more afraid of me however, and as I entered the trailer, they rushed out to their new home. In a clump of gray wool, they seemed to move in unison, a quartet of frightened woolly creatures who knew not the right from the left! Sheep hate change I mused. As I stood there watching them, I was so aware of my own dislike of things being altered or different or changed.
The next morning my ewes sought to check out the new additions. However there wasn't a hospitable ewe among them, as each was bonking the other's head, causing a sudden dislike for the new ewes and visa versa. Thankfully, the ewes did become acquainted and became relaxed in each other's presence.
"Oh, Father, are we like that? You go out to rescue us, bring us into a place of safety, built by Your own hands. We bang on each other's emotions and spirituality causing great harm and pain for all of us. Change is so hard. Help us to be loving and lovable Christians. People who are safe to be with and safe to save. And when you bring in the other flocks to the fold, may we rejoice in Your precious wooing love, to save us all."

"He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom

of the Son He loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness

of sins" Colossians 1:13,14 NIV

"I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen, I must bring also. They too will

listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd."

John 10:16 NIV