Loss of a child

There is nothing that could compensate for the loss of a child. I've shared this story with others who have lost children, and it is called "The Great Shepherd" There is a story of Sweetness and beauty, which enlightens the heart of every parent who has lost a child.

It concerns a custom among the shepherd folk of the Alps. In the summer time when the grass in the lower valleys withers and dries up, the shepherds seek to lead their sheep up a winding, thorny, and stony pathway to the high grazing lands. The sheep, reluctant to take the difficult pathway, infested with dangers and hardships, turn back and will not follow. Finally a shepherd reaches into the flock and takes a little lamb and places it under his arm. Then he starts up the precipitous pathway. Soon the mother sheep starts to follow and afterward, the entire flock. They ascend the tortuous pathway to the saving green pasture above.


The Great Shepherd of the sheep, the Lord Jesus Christ, or savior, has reached into the flock and he has picked up your little lamb. He did not do it to rob you, but to lead you out and upward. He has richer and greener pastures for all of us and he wants you to follow. Will you follow him? You will if you catch a glimpse…. “Of the good Shepherd on the height Or climbing up the starry way Holding our little lamb asleep While the murmur of the sea Soundeth that voice along the deep Saying “Arise and follow me”