MOOO

I'm most certainly a country gal at heart. I've been meditating on cows lately, well "oxen" to be precise. The other day, the Lord placed this well-known verse in my path: "Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart, and you will find rest for yourselves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light." Matthew 11:28-30

Funny. Almost exactly one year ago the Lord graced me with the same Scripture. On July 18, 2006 I received the phone call I had feared for the past 9 months. "Mrs. Gent, I'm sorry to inform you that it appears that Stephen is affected by Menkes." The knee-jerk Word that roared through my mind was, "Lord, this yoke is not light!" In my mind, I pictured a single oxen, yoked and struggling with an extreme load, being whipped by the Driver. Although knowing that this verse was significant for me and my walk, I was quickly distracted by the tasks of motherhood and gave it not another thought.

God is so good. He never leaves us alone, does He? In prayer, He recently whispered to me, "Yes, following Me requires great sacrifice. And yet, you do not travel alone. When two oxen are yoked together they can pull a load that one of them could never pull alone." Apparently, I'm not the only one enamored with cows. At an online site that celebrates cows and yokes (http://www.prairieoxdrovers.com/), I learned, the "yoke must be shaped very carefully to fit the head and horns of the oxen. As the oxen grow, a new yoke must be made, and because each team's head and horns have a different shape, once a yoke is fitted to a specific team, it cannot be used on another team of oxen." God has us each fitted in the palm of His hand, does He not? Thank you, Jesus!

Me & the Lord!