January 11, 2023

Generosity with prudence

🎧 Listen to the original voice message from La Jardinera

In the street, my dear seeds,

There was a little dog, she was chubby, chubby, chubby! Because she was pregnant and she was heavy, heavy and she was thinking: oh, soon I will have to give birth to my puppies, my puppies, my puppies, so I have to find a place where I can be calm and they can be born, and take care of them.

The little dog was walking through all the streets, so she left the town and there she found a shepherd, a shepherd who was taking care of her sheep, she approached the house and said to the shepherd:

I would like to ask you a favor, could I stay here for a few days? Because my puppies are going to be born, my puppies, and I don't know where to go, I want them to be well guarded and not cold.

The pastor said: Of course I do! There he looks for a place in the haystack.

No! No! I'll stay here at home, I'll find a little corner and then I'll go.

Well stay.

And the grateful little dog would go out, look at the sheep to see if they were all ready, if they had come in, and the shepherd finished, entered his house and saw the little dog and when he ate what was left over for dinner, he always gave it to her and she ate.

The time came where several puppies were born! She had about 5 or 6 puppies, those little puppies were happy because it didn't rain, it wasn't cold and the puppies could feed them. She took care of them! With much affection and love and he gave them his milk, the dog never lacked food, the shepherd would go with the sheep, the whole flock of sheep, lambs, and she would stay at home with her puppies, but a day where those puppies got big because he had to go.

She already knew that the pastor left her alone so that she could have her own children and she said: I am so well here, I can't leave, they are still small. But when they got to be big, that they defended themselves, and they were already big dogs, she said: well, the time has come where your shepherd has to leave your house. And because? Because we are the majority and we need to live at home, we are fine, we are very comfortable and we have everything we want and need.

So she did not let the shepherd enter her house, she had to leave and go to the side, to the barn, where the sheep were and sleep with them.

My dear seeds, sometimes we trust and we don't know who, other times we offer without knowing and other times we give everything without knowing how to do things well, either because we have pity or because they are very old dogs, it could be a dog very old, it can be a cat or a cat, so when we have whims we love it and accept it and when it gets older we are no longer interested.

But it turns out that that dog becomes master of the house and throws you out and then we have to reflect, many times on our actions, on what we do because other times we give a piece of bread and it returns a gold ingot, other times We give a smile and they hug us back, but we always have to be vigilant to what we want or to our whims or to our heart, if it truly speaks or acts from the heart or simply to make a good gesture.