We are down to one cow to calve. Our day looks the same if we have one or if we have a whole herd of them to calve. Feed, check the cow. Do other chores, check the cow. Eat lunch, check the cow.  The afternoons are full of work with checking the cow as a priority. The nights are the same as well. Bedtime is 10, but before you sleep, you check the cow. Get up at 2 a.m. and check the cow. Alarm blares at 6 and we check the cow. One cow, just one.

Every time there is a storm predicted we take a clipboard and gather each pasture. We tuck things behind a windbreak for their protection and before we close the gate we check each calf off. Sometimes there is one missing, just one. We ride the pasture every nook and cranny looking for one. Sometimes they are in the pasture, other times we have just overlooked them in the corral in the jumble of all the others, but until that one calf is found we do not rest. One calf, just one.

Me, just a kid at the age of 9, one human being in the midst of all the people of the world, heard his voice as he came calling me. Me, just me. I realized my need for a savior. My need, just mine. I repented of my sin, and asked him to come in and take over! He did that for me, yes me! 

This old world is full of a lot of people. He loves them all, but zoom in real close and look into His face and His eyes and understand He loves you, yes you. You, the one who thinks you have done too many things that he could never forgive. You, the one who thinks you are unlovable. Yes, you. Just you. He knows your name, do you hear him calling YOU?

Matthew 18: 12-14 “What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? ¹³ And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off. ¹⁴ In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish.