Salty this is a true story. The Following Took Pl., November 2014.
Yesterday I looked out of the south washroom window and there was a large buck on the other side of the fence eating fescue not more than 35 yards away. It was 8?F and the sun had not yet risen and peered over the trees. Frost was extra heavy It looked like a winter wonder land....The old boy was a big one! He had a nice heavy antler, five points on his right side. The left side antler was missing, gone. I was watching him thinking, (that is strange, they don?t shed this early). He took a step and his left leg was dangling and useless. I don?t know if he had a shoulder injury or a leg injury. With every breath I could see fogyish steam coming from his nostrils with the warm moist air of his life?s body breathing out and hitting the frigid cold air of the morning..... I was home because I had had a traumatic injury from an accident. My back had been broken in two places. My right leg femur bone was broken completely into. All of my chest bones were broken, and every breath was pain and agony, along with a fractured left ankle. I Could barely make it out of my hospital bed which was in our living area, being a central location in our home. . Every move that I would make was pure pain and torture from head to foot, there was no relief this day as my doctor was not a pain med hander outer and I was in such tremendous pain and had to make a 10 day supply of pain medication last 30 days in-between prescriptions. What pain medication I had, had to rationed. I had great sympathy for this beautiful creature of God. Watching him, I figured that perhaps he might have been hit by a car on his left side. It was 8 degrees and the shadows were still lurking, as the sun was slowly climbing to clear the treetops that early, frozen frosty aired morning. I just watched him for a while. He slowly made his way, a painful step at a time, stopping to take a a bite of cold frozen frost covered grass, breathing hard, chewing his bite and then maybe another step and so on, making his way to sage just a few feet ahead..... As the sun was peeking over the trees and touched his back, as he had just reached the edge of the Sage, he just seemed not have the determination to take another step or go any further being content to just lay down. He laid there all day, as I would check on him from time to time as I had to make my way to this wash room from time to time. He would still be laying there, soaking up the rays of the sun. I could understand the similarities that he and I shared. I could understand wanting to lay there all day and not move because of the tremendous pain. I thought of the way things were in the beginning, before The curse of sin; did the animals suffer? I think they did not suffer before WE sinned. God had placed us in a truly perfect environment. Now because of sin, we suffer and have pain, but not only do we suffer and experience pain but the creatures of God also suffer. We must have brought this pain and suffering on them as well as ourselves when we sinned? I do not know the answer to this, but I do know that the Bible says that one day the lion will lay down with the lamb!!! There will be no more heartache, no more pain, no suffering, blindness, no more lame, no more sickness or death because the former things will be passed away! And as our brother Michael said , God HIMSELF, will wipe away our tears. And brother Salty, when God does something he does it right !! What a awesome wonderful forgiving God we serve to love us enough to send his son to REDEEM us back unto himself!! To pay the price of sin that we brought upon ourselves, from sin and certain eternal death and destruction, and separation from him forever..
He really loves us..... Oh what a God! Oh what a Savior!
Phillip