I'm having M copy nice stories for her handwriting practice. This is the one for next week.
One evening a man called his five sheep
to come into the shelter for the night. His family watched with great
interest as he simply called, “Come on,” and immediately all five heads
lifted and turned in his direction. Four sheep broke into a run toward
him. With loving-kindness he gently patted each of the four on the head.
The sheep knew his voice and loved him.
But
the fifth sheep didn’t come running. She was a large ewe that a few
weeks earlier had been given away by her owner, who reported that she
was wild, wayward, and always leading the other sheep astray. The new
owner accepted the sheep and staked her in his own field for a few days
so she would learn to stay put. He patiently taught her to love him and
the other sheep until eventually she had only a short rope around her
neck but was no longer staked down.
That
evening as his family watched, the man approached the ewe, which stood
at the edge of the field, and again he gently said, “Come on. You aren’t
tied down anymore. You are free.” Then lovingly he reached out, placed
his hand on her head, and walked back with her and the other sheep
toward the shelter.1
In
the spirit of that story, I pray that the Holy Ghost will help us learn
together tonight about covenant keeping. Making and keeping covenants
means choosing to bind ourselves to our Father in Heaven and Jesus
Christ. It is committing to follow the Savior. It is trusting Him and
desiring to show our gratitude for the price He paid to set us free
through the infinite gift of the Atonement.
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