Seeking a Few Good Shepherds
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/us/18sheep.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin
Children everywhere love prizes and fuzzy animals, right? The North Dakota shepherding industry is counting on it.
Jay Pickthorn/Forum
A program in North Dakota offers “starter flocks” to revive the state’s sheep industry.
In an unusual move meant to encourage youthful interest in a career field that could perhaps use a little of-the-moment excitement, a state group will be awarding sheep to select teens and ’tweens. They hope to encourage a new generation of shepherds.
Shepherding, always popular among storybook characters and as a religious metaphor, has taken a beating in reality. Nationally, tens of thousands of sheep ranches have disappeared in recent decades. And in mostly rural North Dakota, there are just 840 operations now, a drop of about 1,000 sites tending to lambs, ewes and rams since the late 1980s. Livestock specialists say that fewer people seem to have the patience or expertise to handle flocks, and that there are concerns about the ease of marketing and slaughter.
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Living Prayer by RON BLOCK
In this world I walk alone
with no place to call my home
But there’s One who holds my hand
on the rugged road through barren lands
The way is dark, the road is steep
but He’s become my eyes to see
Strength to climb, my grief to bear
the Savior lives inside me there
In Your love I find release,
a haven from my unbelief
Take my life and let me be
a living prayer, my God to Thee
Through these trials of life I find
another voice inside my mind
It comforts me and bids me live
inside the love the Father gives
In Your love I find release,
a haven from my unbelief
Take my life and let me be
a living prayer, my God to Thee
Take my life and let me be
a living prayer, my God to Thee
Alison Krauss & Union Station recorded this its so moving
Wrong Person?
I have no way of knowing whether or not you married the wrong person, but I do know that many people have a lot of wrong ideas about marriage and what it takes to make that marriage happy and successful. I'll be the first to admit that it's possible that you did marry the wrong person. However, if you treat the wrong person like the right person, you could well end up having married the right person after all. On the other hand, if you marry the right person, and treat that person wrong, you certainly will have ended up marrying the wrong person. I also know that it is far more important to be the right kind of person than it is to marry the right person. In short, whether you married the right or wrong person is primarily up to you.
-Zig Ziglar
Love and Marriage
"We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men or women contemplate an escape, they do not collect all their powers for the task. In none of the serious and important tasks of life do we arrange such a "getaway." We cannot love and be limited."
-Alfred Adler
"There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends."
-Homer
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