THE LOST GOAT

This morning after reading the story of the lost sheep, I was considering the “Lost Goat”. Well you know that story about the lost sheep; the sheep actually gets all the publicity. What about the goat. I know, no one wants to tell a happy ending story about a goat, because we all know how stupid a goat can be, but wait I know of a goat that was not that stupid, in fact, that goat was a wise goat, I dear say that that particular goat was wiser than some lost human sheep because, it sort for and returned to its owner.

It was my grand mother’s goat. It got lost when my grand ma took it to cross breed in a neighboring village, the contact who was suppose to let my grandmother’s goat cross breed with her he-goat let the two goat out of sight, maybe assuming that they should get to know each other before they get down to business lol., I wonder what she was thinking anyway maybe a little goat romance, he he he.

Well, it didn’t work that way because my grand mother’s goat took off at the slightest opportunity, and escaped, maybe the she-goat did not like that romantic arrangement and all that stuff, so it took off, wondered and wondered around and got properly lost for a whole week in another village, miles away from my grand ma’s village

All the while, my grand ma was thinking that her goat was doing well cross breeding without any stress since there was no news from the contact. Not to be, because the contact had to come and ask my grand ma, if the she-goat has reached home at last.

After the huge quarrel between my grand ma and her contact, the true search for the goat began. But the goat was not found. Trust my grand ma, to lament and send SOS to all her children in which ever city they were residing, about her precious little she-goat, oh, now lost!

The goat wondered and wondered around and on a very fine day, as told by my grand ma, she was sitting in front of her house with a neighbor’s nine year old child, who always pulls staunch at my grand ma about the lost goat, sometimes she will shout out, “mma mma see, is that not your lost goat coming back” My grand ma will hurriedly run out only to see someone else’s goat or no goat at all. And she will pick a stick and chase the child round the compound. Classical isn’t it.

But on this day, the child said the same thing, and my grand ma said that there was a catch in her voice which made her to respond and come out to see for herself the goat in question, and to her surprise there was actually, a dirty, rough looking she-goat, coming from the entrance of the long road that leads to her compound. The goat will stop, look around, turn back as if to go the other way, but will turn back again in to my grand ma’s

road leading to her compound. By this time my grand ma’ heart was palpitating, and she was whispering to her self and the child, Ah it might be my goat oh, but she is so lean and dirty, come, come goat , is it really you ? just then, she ran into her kitchen, bring out a dry fish and calls out to the goat the way she normally does, and the goat , when it heard its name, came wobbling to my grand ma’s side, not to take the fish, but to sniff my grand ma’s legs and wrapper as a dog would do, it did that for like two to three minutes and after satisfying itself, that this was actually its owner, it then sat down on the floor beside my grand ma and bleat. Off course my grand ma could not contain her tears of joy and she let them flow freely. Her lost goat found her.

Thank you, great blogging community .

This is a thank you post to all the bloggers who visited my site and took time out to drop comment concerning the S.O. S of my dear friend who had challenges with her little toddlers.

This has shown that some bloggers in the blogging community are truly their “brother’s keepers”.

I appreciate the following bloggers for their concern and comment:

Wind Mill of www.windmillofmymind.com

Del of Music Through Time , Artists and Music, As The World Turns.

Lady Rose of Entrecard Cookbook (not just recipes), Stir The Cauldron, Diet Pulpit , Entrecard Favorites, 2 Witches Blog, Enchanted Cauldron

I personally printed each comment, with the exception of the comment from dodgegravity . That is because I don’t understand his comment.

I personally took the printed comments to my friend to read it herself and be rest assured, and also to implement some of the advice and wait for positive results.

Thank you once again.

MY FRIEND NEEDS URGENT HELP

A friend of mine is experiencing the following dilemma. I am a novice as far as motherhood is concern (both of us belong to the same motherhood category), so I decided to use my blog to help her cry out for help. She is urgently in need of advice and is getting desperate.

My friend is a mother of two little boys. One is seven months plus, while the elder one is 2 years plus. For privacy sake, I will call the first one Tom while I call the little one Jerry (I don’t mean to be mischievous, but that’s what I can think of for now). The little Jerry currently crawls on this kneels and hand, he holds settee and tables and chairs to stand up.

The challenge is with the elder boy, Tom, he grabs Jerry each time he sees him standing with the aid of the sofa, tables and chairs. Initially their mother thought it was because he has not seen his brother standing before and that he was fascinated by the act and does not want the brother to fall down. But that seems not to be the case because recently Tom does not allow Jerry to stand with the aid of anything; He will run to where Jerry is standing and drag him down, making the baby to fall to the ground.

The one that bothers their mother most is that Tom will not allow Jerry to hold any toy whatsoever, he will pull it from his hands, and make Jerry cry, that is bad enough, but you are yet to hear the worst. Of recent, Tom has formed the habit of jumping on Jerry from the sofa and chairs in the house irrespective of the posture Jerry may be in, whether he is standing, sitting, lying down or squatting!

In a day Jerry is made to fall several times because of the Tom. Their mother is at a loss of what to do since Tom cannot communicate well yet. Their mother can only engage him in baby talk, and that seems to be sufficient in communicating to him the danger he poses to his sibling. Someone with experience should kindly share from experience how this kind of issue can be handle.

I am currently searching forums for possible answers to this dilemma because my friend is really getting worried and no one around her seems to have had a similar experience.

Can this be true?

Satan called a worldwide convention of demons.

In his opening address he said,

"We can't keep Christians from going to church."

"We can't keep them from reading their Bibles and knowing the truth."

"We can't even keep them from forming an intimate relationship with their savior."

"Once they gain that connection with Jesus, our power over them is broken."

"So let them go to their churches; let them have their covered dish dinners, BUT steal their time, so they don't have time to develop a relationship with Jesus Christ.."

"This is what I want you to do," said the devil:

"Distract them from gaining hold of their Savior and maintaining that vital connection throughout their day!"

"How shall we do this?" his demons shouted.

"Keep them busy in the non-essentials of life and invent innumerable schemes to occupy their minds," he answered.

"Tempt them to spend, spend, spend, and borrow, borrow, borrow."

"Persuade the wives to go to work for long hours and the husbands to work 6-7 days each week, 10-12 hours a day, so they can afford their empty lifestyles."

"Keep them from spending time with their children."

"As their families fragment, soon, their homes will offer no escape from the pressures of work!"

"Over-stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that still, small voice."

"Entice them to play the radio or cassette player whenever they drive." To keep the TV, VCR, CDs and their PCs going constantly in their home and see to it that every store and restaurant in the world plays non-biblical music constantly."

"This will jam their minds and break that union with Christ."

"Fill the coffee tables with magazines and newspapers."

"Pound their minds with the news 24 hours a day."

"Invade their driving moments with billboards."

"Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, mail order catalogs, sweepstakes, and every kind of newsletter and promotional offering free products, services and false hopes.."

"Keep skinny, beautiful models on the magazines and TV so their husbands will believe that outward beauty is what's important, and they'll become dissatisfied with their wives. "

"Keep the wives too tired to love their husbands at night."

"Give them headaches too! "

"If they don't give their husbands the love they need, they will begin to look elsewhere."

"That will fragment their families quickly!"

"Give them Santa Claus to distract them from teaching their children the real meaning of Christmas."

"Give them an Easter bunny so they won't talk about his resurrection and power over sin and death."

"Even in their recreation, let them be excessive."

"Have them return from their recreation exhausted."

"Keep them too busy to go out in nature and reflect on God's creation. Send them to amusement parks, sporting events, plays, concerts, and movies instead."

"Keep them busy, busy, busy!"

"And when they meet for spiritual fellowship, involve them in gossip and small talk so that they leave with troubled consciences."

"Crowd their lives with so many good causes they have no time to seek power from Jesus."

"Soon they will be working in their own strength, sacrificing their health and family for the good of the cause."

"It will work!"

"It will work!"

It was quite a plan!

The demons went eagerly to their assignments causing Christians everywhere to get busier and more rushed, going here and there.

Having little time for their God or their families.

Having no time to tell others about the power of Jesus to change lives.

I guess the question is, has the devil been successful in his schemes?

You be the judge!!!!!

Does "BUSY" mean: B-eing U-nder S-atan's Y-oke?

(this is not mine, i stumbled on it and want you to take a look!!!)