My family has accused me of being a tiny bit obsessed with sheep. They’re tired of me yelling for John to stop the car on foreign roads so I can take a picture. But they’re cute. And I feel like sheep and the guys who hang with them have a lot to teach me.
In a community of young married couples I shepherd (unintentional pun), we’re studying David, my favorite Bible guy. He was a musician, a leader, a poet, a crappy father, a great friend, a soldier, an adulterer, and…a shepherd. In short, a renaissance man before the renaissance.
Of all his roles, the one I love the most, the one I learn from the most, is shepherd. Continue reading