The Lost SheepThe Lost Sheep

For many rural families all over Ethiopia, children carry the job of watching cattle and sheep. In the high, northern Simian Mountains, children may walk as much as 20 miles a day with their sheep to find water and grass. They carry the sheep when necessary. Some of them spend a few hours a day in school and then go back to their jobs with the livestock. It is a challenging life, but it can be the source of valuable life. The people listening to the story retold in this book, first told 2000 years ago, would have understood this sense of trust and responsibility felt by a shepherd. It was a wonderful metaphor to describe the trustworthiness of God. -- Amazon.com