Driving along the road on the way to church....

and what do we see? Two cows, on the edge of the road, chewing their cud, wondering what we were doing staring at them. Me, my Dad and my sister had to laugh. They looked so forlorn....standing there, not knowing if they should go back, or move forward. Eventually we moved on, driving slowly down the road, gradually picking up speed as the cows got smaller and smaller in my side view mirror. With a laugh my dad looked back and said, "now they're going to follow us." Looking back I saw they were walking in the direction we had gone. Within minutes, they were out of sight, and out of my mind. At church, God had played a little trick on us. The Sermon was about Lost Sheep...or, as I translated it, since I am living in OK: Lost Cows. Funny, God, real funny - is what I thought. Just his little way of reminding us that he is very present in our lives...even when we just think it's a crazy old cow chewing her cud.