How close are you with your pet(s)?  If you’re like a lot of folks, you’re pretty close.  Many pets instinctively know how you’re feeling, and you to a degree them.  But shepherds and their sheep are on a whole different level.  There’s a bond between them that most people and animals cannot share.  And that’s the picture the God uses to highlight the bond that he has, or wants to have, with us.  It’s one that even miraculously brings his divine life, eternal life, into us.  Jesus promises, “I give them (my sheep) eternal life.”  He truly does.  Join us on Sunday to experience how wonderful life with God is!