On the Sheep and the Goats... with a nod to the Goats

On the Sheep and the Goats... with a nod to the Goats

Maren Tirrabasi is a UCC spiritual writer of depth and grace. And evidently knows something about goats as well!

Praying the parables – March 31,2014

Matthew 25: 31-33 … the sheep and the goats

God, be praised for this season
of the kidding of goats –
my new friend’s Nigerian dwarf kid,
my cousin’s
Tennessee fainting goats –
the vulnerable joy
in newborn sweet slickness,
the more-than-a-metaphor
tender freshening of does.

God, make us careful in our
glib recitation of parables –
for you taught love,
not division
not how to judge ourselves or others –

least of all the breech-born kid,
just saved,
bloody, wet and eyes wide open
in your loving hands.
Amen


Dahlia right after having one of two doe kids

 Akina and her two kids on a cold winter's night!

Poem reposted from Maren Tirabassi's blog at  http://giftsinopenhands.wordpress.com/