Stinging tears hit my eyes as I write the title of this blog…The absolute amazement and pure excitement and total incomprehensiveness of “life” …I really have no words to describe what I have experienced over the last four days.
Yes I was raised on a farm…I saw cows born, cats born, pigs born…horses, and dogs…I suppose I was way too young to “see”…What I see now.
I feel this same wonder with the puppies! Each litter I can not find the words to describe what I see and feel!
Now with the sheep! It is the same kind of amazement! And That amazes me ! I have a certain bond with my 7 girls for sure. But they are not pets, nor good friends and members of my family. Well not like the dogs… But I have attended each of the 5 Ewes lambing so far…And each time I am struck by how all this takes place! The amazing process from the breeding till the birthing!
How the ram knows when and what to do…How the lamb grows for 5 months in the safety of the Ewe. Then how her body knows and prepares for the birth. From the softening of her hind quarters to the milk that comes in and is ready to nourish the lamb. Then the birth itself. How she starts to bahh for her lamb. How that lamb can hear her and know her voice. Then as the lamb is born the special language she and the lamb speak to each other. The sheer tenderness of her voice…It says so much…like hey little one I am your Momma…you are special and you are mine…I am here to feed you, and protect you, and teach you how to find your milk bucket. But… there is such a tenderness in her voice that is so incredible…How the lamb responds! (How my heart responds!) If you hear it I promise you will never forget it. How my spirit, my being, my soul understands…but please understand it is all beyond any words… You know it.. you feel it… deep in your being…(Maybe it is from when mankind could talk with animals and they with us and understand each other?) I don’t know… All I do know is it is so awesome!
The wonder of it all!!!! I am so Blessed to be a part of this farm!!! It is life…clearly I am where I was meant to be…
