The shepherd and the cow
Posted in Articles on 08/29/2009 11:41 am by ShaziaThe cow meanders in the grassy knolls, the familiar mounds. Ruminating.
The shepherd urges it forward – but the cow knows not of the waterfall and the magnificent gardens ahead.
The grassy knoll has blades of grass – mostly grazed and barren, but it was where once the cow was fed.
It’s a familiar comfort and the comfort of the familiar. Even though the grassy knoll no longer provide the sustenance it once did.
The shepherd knows the destination and gently veers the cow.
Like a four-year-old going to a new school for the first time, the cow moves slowly, fidgeting, frolicking.
It’s not a playful frolic, but more an anxious delay.
Today, my emotional mind is a cow. The rational mind urges it ahead to the magnificent plains that defy her greatest imagination.
But she knows not where the path leads, she only knows the grounds that fed her once.
Her grip on the old is still loosening, but slowly.
The unfamiliar seems unknowable.
The shepherd and the cow
