Why don't you turn to Zachariah chapter 11?

One of the things I often am thankful for in kind of a cool way, but I also have to remind myself that it wasn't all.

You know how you have memories that were glorious memories of your past?

And then you kind of remember,

oh, it wasn't really that glorious. This is one of those. I have fond memories of growing up on our

little farm as a kid. And I talk about it, you know, from time to time. And my wife, she's like,

oh, Brett, man, we need to get some farm animals like when you were a kid, know and like and then I think about I'm like wait

a minute that was a lot of work I'm not sure I have the energy to do what my parents did we we had a

little little you know piece of farmland out in the middle of nowhere an applegate organ

wasn't large but it was big enough to where we had horses, cattle, sheep, chickens,

goats, geese, rabbits, quail, bees, even worms. If you're old enough, you remember when

the worm farm was really popular. You guys remember the worm farm? We actually started one of those,

at least I did,

and it was great for fishing, but also good for the garden, you know, kind of thing. But we had all

those animals. And, you know, of all the animals that we had, of that list, including the

worms, the sheep were the dumbest. Oh, they were cute and cuddly and all that, but they were really, really dumb. And that's

the problem. You know, it's funny when the Bible compares you and me to sheep, it's actually a little

painfully true. No wonder the Lord says that, you know, to us. I'm reminded, you know,

that what Isaiah the prophet said, all we like sheep have gone astray.

You know, we've turned everyone his own way, and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

We're the sheep who go astray, and good thing for us.

We have a good shepherd in the Lord.

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