Can a sheep teach a wolf to eat grass?
To enjoy the tender snap of clover stalk,
the flake of its flower upon the red and eager tongue?
What does the wolf know or love of green pastures,
still less peace; yet
waterfalls spill like wine at an abundant feast
and pool beside the meadow you have spread
like a cloth before my hungry feet
in the presence of those who snap at my heels,
who have eyes only for the shadow of death.
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“See, I am sending you out like sheep into the midst of wolves…” (Matthew 10:16a) Year A Proper 6: Matthew 9:35-10:23
over the water 