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Originally posted by Ananda
A parable for religious educators:
A sheep found a hole in the fence
and crept through it.
He wandered far
and lost his way back.
Then he realized that he was
being followed by a wolf. He ran
and ran, but the wolf kept chasing
him, until the shepherd came
and rescued him and carried him
lovingly back to the fold.
In spite of everyone’s urgings
to the contrary, the shepherd refused
to nail up the hole in the
fence.
Anthony De Mello, SJ
One day the ravenous wolf caught the little sheep;
the shepherd was nowhere to be seen, smelled or found.
The brutish collection of fangs, claws and fury,
tore her asunder, consuming flesh, sinnew and bone.
When all the bleating, and suffering was over,
the sheep looked up and saw she was the shepherd.
Wearing the body of a sheep, the sheperd, wept with joy,
for the loving mercy of the wolf, whose name was karma,
her loyal guide to the fence-hole home.
Well she guarded the hole in the fence, so that her
brothers and sisters, would also know where to go.
