A Blind Shepherd's Faith
StoryTestimony★★★★The story is told by Hugh Macmillan in The Daisies of Nazareth of a highland shepherd on a lonely moor who had been infirm for many years and blind. He was so crippled with rheumatism that he could not stir from his seat beside his lowly peat fire. As he was sitting thus one day, a kindly visitor asked him whether the hours which he spent in this manner were not weary, and spoke of the blessedness of heaven.
The old shepherd answered simply: “I know it well: I have been in heaven during the last ten years.” He went on to explain to his visitor that since Jesus had entered his heart ten years before and had made his abode there, he had not felt the weariness as he had before.--C.
F. Andrews, Christ in the Silence
The point
A blind and crippled highland shepherd, when asked if his hours of suffering are weary, responds that he already lives in the blessedness of heaven.