Sheep Talk©

 

Sheep Talk©

A Limerick A Day to Keep You On Your Way©

 There once was a flock of socializing sheep.

Unaware they were the prey for a sly creep.

One word,

 Is heard.

The Good Shepherd saves the sheep from the sly creep.

 

What do you feel when you hear your name called?

Fear,  Excitement,  Hope,  It’s about time!

May is typically remembered for Mother’s Day.  Every person born had a mother, barring crazy scientific experiments.  Every child born is given a name.  You may love your name or dislike it. Your name is part of your identity.  What happens the countless times you hear your name spoken develops beliefs about yourself.  If you were blessed in a home that invoked feelings of love and acceptance when your name was spoken, regardless of times you may have been disciplined, you are most likely secure in who you are.  But what if you weren’t?  What if you dreaded hearing your name?

Is it any wonder the evil propagating our children is trying to erase their identity?  If you don’t know who you really are you can easily be preyed upon.  You may follow anyone who calls your name.

Did you know sheep have their own language?

I learned some fascinating traits of sheep.  Sheep talk to each other.  They have different tones, like humans.  Like humans, if we are in a crowd looking for a friend or a child, and we call out their name,  they know the sound of our voice: Even if their name is the same name as another.  Amazing!

How do you react when a robot calls your phone?  Especially the ones now that sound so real you interject a question only to realize it is not a real person. I started to shout at them! Then realizing I am shouting at a robot, is only upsetting me.  That’s how deceptive Artificial Intelligence is, getting you to interact with it.  I know it can be used for good things too.  But that is the plight of mankind, we tend to corrupt the good. 

Sheep also have these traits.  They have four stomachs.  They are timid, easily scared, follow the next sheep without hesitation, and often get lost. They wander together like socializing sheep.  An easy target of prey for an evil sly creep.

The Good Shepherd Calls

We are all like sheep. We will stray, get lost, and become prey for a sly creep.  The Good Shepherd arrives to call the sheep back. A sheep may be so lost the Good Shepherd has to go and find it, leaving the flock. I was one of those sheep.  I may have heard him call more than once but I was far from him, grazing with the wrong shepherds. My name had been spoken many times with disapproval, accusations, and other peoples’ judgmental projections I forgot who I was.  I could still eat the grass in the wrong pastures but it somehow never digested well. Your stomach knows when something isn’t right.   Has that happened to you?

The Good Shepherd Speaks

A word spoken at the right time break opens a path never seen before.  I had socialized with all kinds of sheep. The majority of them were wandering and falling prey to the sly creep.  I wrestled for a long time with my name and pronoun.  I can only look back now and see how many times The Good Shepherd saved me from changing who I had been made to be from what I was hearing I should be.  I heard it deep in my spirit. “Paula, you are my beloved child.  Walk with me.”  It allowed me to look up from grazing in the wrong pastures.  Have you ever heard a feeling? Your gaze on what is around you starts to push outward, side to side. And there in front of you is something you never saw before.  The Good Shepherd has found you. He speaks your name.  You have never heard your name spoken with such love. You will want to hear over and over.

The Good Shepherd Saves

Grazing with the Good Shepherd saves you from the sly creep.  You begin hearing differently.  Don’t be fooled.  We are still like sheep. The sly creep is always around. But now we must do our best to keep following the Good Shepherd. One good way to do that is to become familiar with the WORD of God.  The more you read the bible the more you discern who is speaking truth to you.  I want to always be in His pastures, hearing only his voice. What about you? 

 

Pray this prayer with me.

Dear Jesus,

Thank You for being the Good Shepherd. Thank You for calling my name.  Forgive me every time I didn’t respond to Your Voice.  Today I say, “Here I am. I want to follow You.”  Lord, we ask You to orchestrate all of our paths.  We know along the way the sly creep will set many traps. Keep our eyes and ears open.  Train us by knowing Your word and speaking it over all our comings and goings. We like sheep have gone astray but now today we follow only Your way.   In Jesus’ Name.  Amen.

 

Isaiah 53:6 KJV

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

John 10:7-16 KJV

7 Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.

8 All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.

9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.

12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.

13 The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.

14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.

15 As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.

16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.

Written by Paula Ann Kochanek

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