from "A Shepherd's Heart" by Paul C. Brownlow

"The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness."

~ Havelock Ellis

"In Scripture, a man had a hundred sheep, lost one of them, and went after it. And when he had found the runaway, laid it on His shoulders and travelled home.

But the lambs He carries in His bosom. The shoulder is not for them, but the bosom. There they lie, with His arms folded about them - there, where His kind eye can keep its glance upon them. In His bosom, where they can feel the great full heart beating in its love, where He can hear the first mutter of their fear, and they can catch the gentlest whisper of His loving care. He carries them in His bossom.

Close to Him, cradled in His arms, we are sustained and safe."

~ M. Guy Pearse

Know that the Lord is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, the sheep of His pasture. ~ Psalm 100:3

He brought His people out like a flock; He led them like sheep throught the desert. ~ Psalm 78:52

"We have been blessed recipients of God's benevolence, not so we can gather it up for our own contentment, but so we can joyously and freely distribute it to others. We have been comforted to comfort, blessed to bless, loved to love." ~ from A Shepherd's Comfort