Without a shepherd, their hoofs are uncared for which may make it hard for them to move. Unattended sheep are usually a sorry sight to see. There are a lot of unfortunate things that could happen to them if a shepherd is not present. Sheep follow one another blindly. They have an instinct to flock together so as to keep safe. This means that if the leader gets lost, the rest of the flock is lost too.
All it takes is for one member of the flock to wander off and the rest will follow. Another thing worth noting is that sheep get spooked easily. They are afraid, even of the smallest things you can think of.
They can be dangerous if provoked. This is their natural instinct. They have excellent senses. So if they are spooked, they take off. When a sheep becomes separated from the flock, it usually becomes agitated. You have ruled them harshly and brutally. I the LORD have spoken. Children visit the sheep in the pen at a kibbutz in Israel. Photo by Wanderlasss.
Yeshua: The Good Shepherd. Yet, Yeshua did not come to exalt Himself in the eyes of the religious establishment. And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders. The joy in finding what is lost but precious is further illustrated by the parable of the father who throws a grand banquet for his wandering son who returns home.
No punishment. No shaming. Just pure joy. Luke —32; see also vv. A sheep in the flock Photo by Wanderlasss. Certainly, in the last 2, years, we have seen a great number from the nations hear the call of Yeshua and accept Him as their Messiah.
And we understand that when the fullness of the Gentiles is complete, all Israel will also be saved. That prophetic time is not far off.
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Psalm The Rejected Cornerstone. Psalm Delivered Out of the Jaws of Death. I know of no way to forget the stress of business and farm life for a few minutes than simply watching a lamb come into the world or watching them graze on a beautiful pasture.
However, there is something quite different when your dog is a working dog. We use border collies to assist us with all of our sheep chores. As I write this, my 1 dog, now retired, Jake, is at my feet.
My most loyal and loving friend. But we are also partners. Jake has done the work of four farm hands. He has brought new mothers, ever so protective of their new born lambs, into the barn from the pasture, often having to go nose-to-nose with the ornery ewe. He has rounded up cattle 40 times his size. He was worked in the heat of the summer and in the bitter cold of winter nights. This is not a hobby for my dogs or for me.
This is a partnership where a job must get done. We share in the misery of bad weather, bad sheep and bad circumstance. But we end each day with a shared appreciation for a job well done. Pets are wonderful. My dogs have been responsible for my livelihood, my contentment in farming and for my joy to have them at my side day and night. Livestock farming involves killing animals.
Whether we ship them off to an auction, a slaughter house, or we do it ourselves, ultimately the objective is to turn the animals into dollars to sustain a family and the farm.
Sometimes, an animal needs to be euthanatized for humane reasons. And humanity hurts. Knowing you are doing the right thing may take the sting out, but it still hurts. Sometimes, in spite of your efforts to save a mother or a baby during lambing, the shepherd loses. It hurts. And the harder you try to save the life, the more it hurts. To make enough money to provide for a family to make a farm sustainable requires that a shepherd kill a lot of lambs.
But for each lamb killed, there is a ewe who lives to produce again. For every lamb killed, we keep a farmhand employed to care for their family. For every lamb killed we preserve a piece of American farmland that is disappearing at an alarming rate. My job is to kill lambs for food — with many benefits for the animals and our farm. Although I take my animals to a slaughter house to be processed to sell to chefs along the East Coast, I always kill one myself each year for food.
It is never easy for me, but it reminds me what my job is. It helps remind me of the value of each lamb and sheep on the farm, and their death is never taken lightly. Our lamb is Animal Welfare Approved which means even our slaughterhouse is audited to ensure that the life of every animal is treated humanely until its last breath. It is with honor we kill our animals to feed and nourish.
I knew then that the life of those lambs would be honored that night by the artistry of Chef Lenn and that guest — and that was a great honor to me, a humble shepherd. Not all lamb tastes the same. Much like apples and tomatoes, each variety has different virtues and flavor. Lamb is no different. Some breeds of sheep have long fine staple wool that spinners adore, others have course wool better suited for rugs, some are of large frame and are used to add size to hybrid lambs.
Some are mild in flavor and some have a fat that remind many of old mutton. We use two breeds of sheep to create a lamb with a rich lamb meat flavor with a fat so sweet you want to suck on it like bacon.
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