The Good Sheppard…

…Is Jesus’ nic-name not mine.

My second dirty job in my series of jobs on this adventure was, as the title suggests herding Paul’s sheep from the Mitchell’s paddock over to… well… the Mitchell’s paddock, but, different generation.

The backyard is much more then what we think of as a backyard; and on the other side of it lays Grandpa & Grandma’s paddock to “mow” their overgrowth.

So, Paul gets the family together, we go out to the paddock and approach the sheep. My first time trying to sheppard a herd of sheep… my predator instinct came in to play, and all I wanted to do for some reason was chase one down, pounce on it, and bite into its neck…

I can’t explain it… I really can’t. I’m not an African tribal member who drinks blood, and I can’t stand the taste of lamb. I don’t know… it was weird to say the very very least.

So anyway, that oddity aside…

I failed… failed miserably. In my defense, we failed as a team… but, it was a fail.
We gave it a good go, but, by the end, we walked off the battlefield tired, dirty, and defeated. I did not want to go down without a fight however; I even almost got in a fight with one of the males I got separated from the rest of the group.

I came to a conclusion in all this:

Calling people as dumb as sheep, is an insult to sheep.

It really kinda made me wonder how good of a Chaplain I would be. I know… that sounds like a weird comparison, but… it is what concerned me. I’d like to think I’m better with people then with sheep… but… people and sheep have a lot in common.

We were trying to move these stupid things to an area with more food for them, and yet, they refused the change to stay in the dry area that they where familiar with.
We are that stupid. God will try to lead us to an area that He knows is much better for us, and yet, like the dumbass stubborn sheeple that we are… we refuse, run away like pansies and reject what is better for us, to stick with the dry crappy place that we are in. I have a much greater appreciation for when people compare our lack of intelligence to sheep.

God, You have a lot of patience, we really are a bunch of dumbasses.