This afternoon, my wife and I saw The Sheep Detectives—a quirky family mystery about a flock of sheep who secretly understand far more than the humans around them realize. Every night, their shepherd reads detective novels aloud to them, unknowingly training them to think like amateur sleuths. When something tragic and suspicious happens on the farm, the sheep decide they have to solve the mystery themselves. It was a fun and entertaining movie.
From a Blog perspective, it took me back to my 2020 focus on Psalm 23 and that comforting verse, “The Lord is my shepherd…” (For a summary of Psalm 23, check out my final post of 2020.)
In 2022, I picked up Larry Osborne’s book Lead Like a Shepherd: The Secret to Leading Well. Osborne writes, “A shepherd has a unique leadership style. He doesn’t drive his sheep like a cowboy. He doesn’t seek to establish himself as an alpha dog, like a trainer, or treat his people as assets to be managed and maximized like a CEO of a publicly traded company. That’s not to say a shepherd doesn’t provide strong leadership. He does. A shepherd doesn’t ask the sheep where they want to go; he leads them fearlessly, confidently, and boldly to where they need to go, especially when the sheep don’t like it.”
Click here for a summary of Larry Osborne’s Lead Like a Shepherd
