Sheepfold

My friend told me that sometimes … not often, but sometimes … Jesus calls him into the sheepfold. There, with Jesus, he tries to make sense of this dispirited and untidy world … the wars … poverty … climate change … so many guns. In the sheepfold, my friend has time to pray and think deeply … time to be with Jesus and to find rest in him. Then, with a kind word and a prayer, Jesus opens the gate and sends my friend back into the world where, on his better days, he works, prays and lives not for himself, but for the good of others.