The Straggler
On their own path.
I am worried about one of the flock. He struggles to stay with the rest. Always at the edge of the pasture.
Each day, if I call to him rightly he will stay with the others, think I. Yet each day he strays.
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My voice alone cannot change the course of things, yet daily must I try.
Grant me, Lord, acceptance of your will.
– from the mountain
Consider:
Can I accept the path of even the strays?
Reading:
“The impeded stream is the one that sings.” — Wendell Berry
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“Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved.” — Thomas Merton
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“What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?” — Luke 15:4 (KJV)
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