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God and the Art of Toy and Diecast Marketing
A Song of Praise from Stupid Sheep
By Lu Su
Last few months has been challenging both professionally and personally. Post hurricane Sandy tasks never seem to end. I'm looking forward to the first weekend the entire staff can have off. On the personal front, my grandfather has been in the hospital for months with little to no prospects of a return to a normal life. Of late, I am reminded on how little control I have and and how little I know.
A couple nights ago my daughter asked me some chemistry questions about covalent bonding of molecules. I looked at her text book and it was like a foreign language scribbled on the pages. If I had covered such a topic in my youth, I have absolutely no recollection of it.
"Sorry, I can't help you," was the reply I gave my daughter. But then I realized to God, this stuff is real simple and elementary level stuff.
Then last night, my son had this baseball word problem which basically was a linear algebra question. Man hits a ball 3 feet off the ground at this velocity......at this angle..............how far does it travel? I was able to at least set up the equation, but couldn't solve for one of the variables.
"Come on, this is only junior high math! How dumb have I become?", I asked myself while sitting next to my son -pencil in one hand and a fistful of my own hair in the other.
At least with my daughter I saved face by telling myself and her, "I never took AP Chemistry in high school.
Butt with my son I really had no good excuse.
Sometimes I honestly feel that I don't have much more going on in my brain than my dog or sheep. This phrase "dumb as sheep" was very ingrained in me when I was a young lad. Unbeknownst to most people, I actually spent a few years growing up in Utah. It was a time before video games were even invented. Even before the word Atari existed.
Since video games weren't invented yet, fun was always found outside the house. A school friend of mine named Jimmy lived on a farm with hundreds of sheep and milking cows. My friend Jimmy always had a weird smell to him. It wasn't horrible or anything gross, but it wasn't a great smell either. It was just one of those weird but tolerable smells.
It wasn't until I went down to his family's farm where I learned that special smell Jimmy sported was actually sheep and cow manure. On the farm it was like 100 times more pungent and it actually stung both my eyes and nose.
Now don't get me wrong, Jimmy wasn't a dirty kid or anything like that. He wasn't like Charlie Brown's friend Pigpen. Jimmy showered regularly and always wore clean clothes to school. I just think when you are constantly that close to the source, and walking through it, that special aroma permeates the fabric of your clothing, skin, and hair.
One of Jimmy's daily chores was to bring the cows and sheep back into their pens. He had asked me if I wanted to help him after school All day at school I thought I would be like the Marlboro cowboy chasing down large animals and corralling them together. From the large grazing field to their holding pens, the sheep were funneled through this narrow path with chain link fencing on both sides. It wasn't tough work bringing back the cows and sheep. All Jimmy did was open the gate and his dogs did the rest -encouraging the sheep to return.
Jimmy said, "Watch this," as he pushed a rake handle horizontally from one side of the fence to the other side. It was about a foot off the ground. As the sheep came down the narrow runway, it then forced them to jump over this little man-made hurdle he just constructed. After about a minute of watching sheep come down this narrow path and jump over the obstacle, Jimmy pulled the rake out from the fence.
What was really amusing was that the sheep continued to jump over the hurdle that was no longer there.
They just copied what the previous sheep had done. At the very same spot, where the rake was they'd jump.
"Why are they doing that? How dumb is that?" I exclaimed in bewilderment.
"Yeah.....sheep are stupid," Jimmy said with a grimace.
I've come to the realization that if you took the ratio of God's IQ to ours and then compare that ratio of God's IQ to that of sheep, both numbers would be the same. Infinity equals Infinity. God isn't an exaggerating AT ALL when He referred to us as sheep. So despite personally challenging events and circumstances that don't go the way I like, my sheep like mind tells me the right thing to give continual thanks and praise to God.
"give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. " -1 Thessalonians 5: 18
I noticed the writer wrote "in all circumstances" and didn't say "in only good circumstances".
Allow me to echo the words of another shepherd boy that also tended his family's sheep too. These words are about 3000 years young and a tad more eloquent than my buddy's, "Yeah.....sheep are stupid," comment.
Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth.
Worship the Lord with gladness;
come before him with joyful songs.
Know that the Lord is God.
It is he who made us, and we are his;
we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
Enter his gates with thanksgiving
and his courts with praise;
give thanks to him and praise his name.
For the Lord is good and his love endures forever;
his faithfulness continues through all generations.
-Psalm 100
For those of us who are as stupid as sheep, there is a shorter version of the above song. As I traverse this short and narrow path called life, I will Shout, Know and Enter, For the Lord is good!
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