Good shepherd Sunday was this past Sunday and I had a fun time teaching it to my kindergarten RE class. Most of the kids wanted to be wolves and attacked the poor sheep when the hires shepherd was there. I’ve always taken the message, Isn’t it great that our Shepherd is there to guide us but haven’t reflected as much on what it means to be a sheep. Sheep are just not strong, they’re not independent… But they also have an unalterable trust in their leader.
Recently I’ve had a few things come up that were just hard to figure out. And with the brain I have I’m always trying to solve problems. But I stepped back and I said hey I’m a sheep. I’ve got to trust Jesus my shepherd and I don’t have to figure everything else out. So with both of these problems I said Jesus here they are. I’m going to maintain my principles of kindness and love charity + integrity and I’m going to trust that something good comes out of it.
It was tough for me not to try to anticipate or research or do anything, but I decided to go that route and in both situations the best outcome I could have imagined happened. Praise God!
I know I need to work on trusting Him more. But I also hope to not have so many situations where I need to trust Him. But that’s almost like a catch-22 because as sheep we always need our Shepherd. I suppose it’s better to work on acknowledging and thanking God for the ultimate reliance we have on him in this life and not having to figure it all out in purgatory or worse!