Dear Folks -
Darling granddaughter's visit came and went all too soon. We had such a grand time and for a day short of a week were treated to a child's perspective on life which is certainly kinder, gentler, and more direct than an adult's. It was lovely. But now it is back to the real world, and the real world is a hard place to be at the moment -- too much happening.
Our grandson coined the word "genormous," and that pretty much sums up the forest fire burning in eastern Arizona. We have had a family home there for more than 25 years, and this has been a sad, sad week as more than 300,000 acres have gone up in flames, and no end in sight -- zero percent contained more than a week after it began. The photo here was taken in Oregon, but our sentiments in Arizona are the same. The "boots on the ground" have been fabulous, and miraculously only a handful of cabins and other buildings have been lost but the forest, of course, is gone. The Monday-morning quarterbacks are going to have fun with this one for years but for me, the bottom line is the principle of choice and accountability taught in the teenage-girls program at our church: you can always choose your action, but you cannot choose the consequences. Through inaction and ignorance, years ago the political choice was made to ignore forest health, and now that those who made that choice are safely out of the picture, the rest of us pay the consequences.
On a happier note, I think our ram lamb St. George is sold! If that all works out, it would be wonderful. His lot will be different than King's, but he will be with somebody who understands sheep at an intuitive level, he will have lots of hay, and lots of ewes -- not a bad life for a ram, all in all.
Thanking firefighters everywhere, and thinking of ewe -
The Shepherd
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