In the Atrium
My favorite part of being an assistant in a Catechesis of the Good Shepherd atrium is working with the Good Shepherd lesson with the children. And the children that speak to my heart again and again are especially the littlest ones, who perhaps have not yet fully realized who "the sheep" are. There are the practical little ones who tell me about how the Good Shepherd takes his sheep to the vet when they are sick. There are the pensive little ones who are beginning to make the connection between us and sheep and say things like: "The Good Shepherd gives His sheep food . . . and water . . . and apple juice! I like apple juice!" There are the quiet ones who murmur that they don't know when the meditation questions are raised, but still they move the sheep oh-so-close to the Shepherds feet, touching Him with their noses when they are "led out." Then, the ones that humble me the most are the ones who just KNOW. The confident ones that say absolutely unhesit...