Inspirational

The Good Shepherdess

Posted on by Marla
Painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau completed in 1889
She walked among a rocky path, wandering and alone
No place among the community to call home…
Tattered clothes and worn out shoes
Abandoned and abused…
This girl of twenty-two
Then she heard the good news…
A woman, called, the Good Shepherdess
Came to her and dressed her wounds…
Taking her into her flock of more than the girl could count…
99 she mused…
She was called to be a Good Shepherdess, by the Good Shepherd, who showed her the truth…
For she too, had once been lost and abused…
The Good Shepherdess lead her to a place of peace and rest…
Where she was fed and her soul restored…now fully blessed…
Once shadows of death hovered over her head…now no evil can come nigh her bed…
A rod and staff they comfort, giving strength wherever she is led…
The Good Shepherdess said, “I am only a person just like you, but I learned a lesson and this is true, only the Good Shepherd can truly save you. For he saved me and he gave me a new name, to follow…Him!”
And he said, “Goodness and Mercy will be your guide will you always stay close to His pierced, loving, side, to live in His presence and there abide? Will you follow the Good Shepherd and listen to his voice, be wise, child, will you make the right choice?”
Yes, Good Shepherdess, always and forever!
~Marla Shaw O’Neill Oct. 16, 2019
Psalm 23, The Lord is my Shepherd I shall not want…
Marla
I love the Lord Jesus Christ and am passionate about writing. I hope you enjoy the blog and come to visit often. Then the Lord answered me and said: “Write the vision And make it plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry. “Behold the proud, His soul is not upright in him; But the just shall live by his faith. Habakkuk 2: 2-4