SILLY CREATURES

Today I was reading my diary and found a couple of entries I had meant to share but never got around to posting. This is one I wrote on October 25 while I was travelling in Scotland.

Wandering along a Scottish trail - talking to God - thinking about the movie Ratatouille - I started thinking about talking to animals. God created them - God created us. We've got something in common. Maybe they do understand us. I looked to my left and under a spreading chestnut tree sat some sheep - chewing their cud - rudely with their mouths open. So I started talking to them. I told them we were all from the One Creator. In fact you are dumb animals but God says we are just like you - we have all wandered off and got lost. I told them about the story when 99 of them were safe but Jesus went looking for the lost one. I said I was a bit like that lost one. I started to get tears in my eyes thinking that Jesus would go to all lengths for me. One sheep got up and turned its back and wiggled its butt. I chuckled - it is rather strange to talk to sheep. They didn't talk back - at least not that I heard.