SHEEP WITHOUT A SHEPHERD, In Mexico

These sheep were temporarily without a shepherd.

One morning while driving away from the church, Pastor Gerardo noticed a small flock of sheep standing huddled in the middle of the street in Nuevo Progreso.  There was no shepherd in sight and no one seemed to be paying any attention to them.  They stood silently, unmoving, except to draw closer together as his car approached.  Why were they behaving so strangely?  Why wouldn't they run or get out of the street?  What were they doing?  All he knew was that they were temporarily sheep without a shepherd.

Gerardo knew there was a reason for their unusual action, so he stopped to study them for a moment.  He was so interested that he snapped a picture of them with his cell phone.  And then he discovered the reason they were so tightly linked together on that street.  In the very center of the group stood a vulnerable little lamb with a badly injured leg!  And then he knew that they would not move or break rank until their shepherd came to lead them home.

"Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another." Romans 12:10