Be Still And Know

Matthew 18.12 NLT “If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them wanders away, what will he do? Won’t he leave the ninety- nine others on the hills and go out to search for the one that is lost?” I suspect that few of us have had any experience of being shepherds, however many of us will have memories of lost pets. I recall the time when our cat Tabitha went missing for days on end. We walked the streets in the hope that we might see her and called out her name in the hope that we would hear her miaow. But there was no response. And then one day as I was looking down our garden I saw this poor thin creature dragging herself limply towards the house. She had a broken femur and had presumably been involved in a road accident. To say that we were delighted to see her would hardly begin to describe our absolute delight and over the coming weeks she made a complete recovery. Just one little cat, but the news of her return home was a moment of incredible joy for our family. I, therefore, can begin to understand