Every night as The Great Passion Play is preparing to start, a herd of sheep is released from their pen behind the set. They run down the Via under the leadership of one of the older ewes and take a right turn to a holding area behind the "eastern gate". Two young shepherds run after the last, and smallest, sheep to make sure they all get their food at the trough in the first holding area. However, last night, the shepherds did not realize that one very young lamb was trailing far behind and exited the Via after the others were in the holding area and out of his sight.
Of course, he had done this routine about 40 times already, but without someone to follow, he was unsure of where to go......he was indeed, the lost sheep. Calling for his friends, he wandered around, not sure of where to go or what to do. The young shepherds heard the bleating, came back onto the main set and saw the young lamb start back up the Via to his pen at the barn. Doing their job as they had been instructed the young shepherds left the main group, followed the lost sheep back to the pen, made sure he was safe and returned to the main group for the remainder of the sheep's routine in the Play.
The script of TGPP does have the parable of The Lost Sheep told by Jesus to the crowd and directed specifically to the tax collectors, sinners, Pharisees and teachers of the law. It is meant for all to heed and implement in their daily life. All of us are to seek out those who do not belong to the fellowship of believers, return those who have strayed to the fold and celebrate with them. And in all this we are to do our utmost to not be tempted to walk away from the faith ourselves.
Thank you, Lord, for allowing me to witness the parable of the lost sheep in a different way, to see two young boys do their best to right a bad situation and remember the command we all have been given to seek the lost that none may be kept from the place prepared for us in Your eternal Kingdom. Praise You, Lord.
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