Molasses

Someone told me the other day that I need to write on my blog more. So here it goes. :) My supervisor and his family just got back from a three month furlough, and so I have been busy taking care of the sheep, cows, and Masai.

Well know we are in the middle of the dry season and so have started to feed hay and some grain to the sheep. We are mixing molasses and water together and then pouring it onto the hay and the sheep love it. Some of our sheep are changing color because they really get into the food. :) 

When I was mixing the molasses and water one da,y a lot of flies were trying to get some of it. Molasses is somewhat sweet and so the flies like it. As I'm sure most of you know molasses is very sticky and hard to get off. Well the flies would land on the molasses and then when they were ready they would try to get away but couldn't. Seeing this I thought molasses is a lot like the pleasures of this world they might be sweet and enjoyable for a time, but then when you want to get away you are caught in it and it is very hard to get away. Or maybe we are like the sheep the molasses helps the food taste better, but then you can see the molasses stuck on them. And so it is like that with us. We may go into the world and take part in its activities, but then when we are done we always have the scars or stains of the past with us. Only God can help us get rid of the stains of our past.

"Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.   Isaiah 1:18 KJV