This is a Novel of God, aiming for Children in grade 3-4, but all readers are welcome. When we are lost God will find us, he will not return home with out us, he will carry us until we are able to walk on our own two feet, even so, God will be right beside us, he will cleanse us and will rejoice for he has found his lost sheep, he is truly remarkable, truly love able.

God Bless You.

Their once was a herd of one hundred sheep, they where Guarded by a Shepherd, a kind Shepherd, he led them to the luscious long grass, made sure they had the freshest water the shepherd kept his sheep happy, the shepherd loved his sheep and the sheep loved their Shepherd. In fact the Shepherd loved his sheep so much he slept with them, played with them, he did everything with his sheep, he would not part with them.

One morning the Shepherd and his herd of sheep awoke to the sun beckoning down on them, the shepherd arouse first and then attended to his sheep, they had a feed and drink of water then went on their way, the Shepherd was leading the herd, he was looking for a safe place with lots of forage for his family, he ventured for quite awhile until he found just the spot, he stopped and made sure all his sheep where okay, he then settled them down, the place he had found was beautiful, full of life, the sheep attended to the grass, and the Shepherd smiled down on his beloved sheep, he loved every individual sheep, he just watched them, beaming with happiness.

One sheep was eating a patch of shrubs, he was finishing up his patch of forage when before he was going to take his last bite he noticed the grass was already taken, a green Grasshoper was having his dinner in the very same shrub patch the Sheep was.

After a long day of traveling, the loving shepherd herded up his sheep in a pen, that the Shepherd had made that day, the Shepherd made sure his Sheep where happy and comfortable, he counted his sheep, the shepherd counted exactly ninety nine, but there was suppose to be one hundred sheep, he counted again and again, but the same number of sheep, ninety nine, one sheep was missing.

Know the sheep who discovered the Grasshoper, decided to follow this insect, he thought it beautiful and began to play with it, he looked back on his shepherd and his sheep family, then continued to follow the Grasshoper, he followed the insect through a meadow and into a forest the Grasshoper than bored of the sheep flew into the air, and the sheep was left alone, he looked for the Shepherd, but could not see him, he walked and walked through the maze of tree's, eventually it became dark, the forest was black, the sheep was lost.

The shepherd was fearful for his missing sheep, he left his other sheep, to go after his one missing sheep. The shepherd spend the whole day looking for his lost sheep, at the end of this the shepherd lit a fire and slept in a crevice of a rock, the next day again he spent the whole day looking for his lost sheep, it rained, it was not easy, what the shepherd was doing was extremely dangerous, but that was not gonna stop, he passed forest to forest, meadow to meadow, grassland to grassland, again no sheep, he was not discouraged, he slept another night in the woods.

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