The ninety nine


I am currently obsessed with a song by Cory Ashbury titled Reckless Love. Below is the link to a live version of it.  


It’s a lovely new twist on the story from the the bible about the shepherd who leaves his ninety nine sheep to go find that one missing flock member.


When I was younger I often worried about those ninety nine sheep in his absence. I always fretted that they might wander off or fall and hurt themselves. I now know that they were just waiting patiently for their final missing family member to be returned to them. Just waiting, munching on grass and thinking about not much at all.


They were so zen because they had ALL been lost at some point as well. That lovely shepherd trekked out for each and every one of them, he found them and then popped them onto his shoulders for the long journey home.


Oh to be seen, to be heard and finally to be FOUND.