WHAT MAKES A SHEPHERD GOOD?

Fourth Sunday of Easter Good Shepherd Sunday John 10:27-30 There are 3 good qualities that makes a shepherd good. 3L’s. First, a good shepherd is a person of LOVE. A good shepherd must have a heart. Love means being able to sacrifice yourself for others. Love is giving your life. When you say you love others it means you are not afraid to loss your life. To say an “I love you” means, I will fight for you. I will protect you, Nobody can harm you. I will be the first line of defense for you. Friends, are you a person of love? Second, a good shepherd is a good LEADER. Leadership is not about titles or deaignations but it is all about vision, inspiration, influence and responsibility. A good leader is the one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way. Leadership is action not position. A good leader is a good guide, a person of courage. There is no sign of fear in a good shepherd. He will fight until the end. If you are a good leader you will protect and not neglect your people. Fight don’t flight! Finally a good shepherd is a person who LISTEN. Friends, a shepherd who don’t listen will eventually be sorrounded by people who uave nothing to say. Listen so that you will know your people. Tomorrow is our National Election day. Choose a candidate who exemplified the life of the Good Shepherd. It is not enough to be good, one must be a shepherd as well. In short, choose a candidate who has the heart (LOVE). Pick a candidate who has the brain (LEADER) and vote a candidate who has the ear. The one who has ability to LISTEN. By the way today is Mothers’s day. Mothers are the modern good shepherds of our time. Mothers are like good shepherds because they had the same smell like our smell. Let us pray to the Good Shepherd to send more mothers who are willing to give their children to be laborers in the vineyard of the Lord. Blessings Fr. Jhack