Aug 24, 2024 My dog, Dixie, already has the authority to herd sheep; she is in the process of learning her power. In the video, you see her hesitate or doubt herself. When she gets in tune with her identity and authority, she won’t hesitate as much. I identify with this, so I keep refocusing…
Aug 23, 2024 Profound. As new understanding settles in my brain, I fall more in love with Jesus. For me to be a shepherd to my sheep, I really need to give them something they understand. Food, safety. When they feel safe with me, even the wild sheep will calm down. I never understood that…
Aug 22, 2024 Yesterday I gave the sheep their needed parasite treatment. Along with that, the other recommendation is to put them on pasture that doesn’t have the freshly hatched larvae that can repeat this infestation cycle that is the number one killer of sheep. At the moment I treated the 133rd sheep, I looked…
Aug 21, 2024 (this is a continuation from yesterday’s post) My personal coach taught me so many things, I feel so alive, though my circumstances haven’t changed. During the pandemic, I didn’t have that feeling. It was just the opposite. Today, and for longer periods, I’ve been listening to my personal coach. My current circumstances…
Aug 20, 2024 My fear rose as I viewed the Waimea sheep through the cellar wireless camera this morning. Some are deathly sick, and I have been blaming myself, which is not a healthy reaction. I needed God’s comfort. As I wrote this, I heard via a podcast: “Perfect love casts out fear.” Several lambs…
What bugs me about lambs who have been fed bottles of milk is that after they are weaned, they become way too independent. These ones who clearly know my voice and have responded quickly when I have a bottle of milk, often behave like sheep that never got fed or loved. Where is the loyalty?…
Surprise! Dixie does recognize that she can herd sheep. I was rather certain her fear would keep her from understanding that. Well, it still affects her performance, but it does not rule out who she is. She at her core, from her parentage, has the needed gift I desire. How to remove her fear or…
In the night my heart pondered, “Seek first the kingdom of God…” In the morning I’m pondering this statement in a podcast I listened to. It’s this and I’ll return to stories again another day. “…A guy named Stanley Hauerwas. And he says, too often, these characteristics of the blessings here have in Christian history…
Three sheep injured in a dog attack a while ago are still hurting and sick. I kept them in a small field where I could check them daily. One had been inches away from dying. Yesterday I wanted them to follow me to a new pasture. I had kept them fed, so they began to…
Today I struggle with how to describe this fresh bread from the Lord. At this very moment, I’m basking on the shores of the promised land. It is by faith this kingdom Jesus talked about is happening in my heart. I’m living on every word that proceeds out of God’s mouth. He’s filling it with…