Heaven Has Blue Carpet
A Sheep Story by a Suburban Housewife
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4.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $6.99
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Publisher Description
One woman’s impulsive foray into sheep herding provides an unexpected education in God’s shepherding love for His people.
Sharon Niedzinski and her family never expected their lives to change so quickly. It all started with an unsolicited call from their realtor—their dream farm had come up for sale. A new life in an old farmhouse seemed like the perfect adventure. As Sharon fixed up the house, she looked at the green pastureland outside, and a new theme emerged: “New England Countryside.” She ordered a flock of white Columbia ewes to match the Waverly plaid wallpaper, matching curtains and blue carpet. She had no idea what she was in for...
While dealing with orphan lambs, tail cuttings and foot rot, Sharon began to experience firsthand the amazing truths buried in the many Scriptures referencing God as our Shepherd. Through hilarious, heart-tugging stories, the author tells how those truths radically changed her life and brought her closer to our hard-working, sweat-stained, real-life Shepherd—Jesus.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
When Niedzinski, a suburban Michigan housewife and mother of six, moved into a century-old country farmhouse, she na vely ordered a flock of Columbia sheep to match her New England Countryside decorating theme. Thus began 16 years of indoctrination into the finer arts of sheep care that included breeding rams, flushing, and the snip, dip, and clip ritual. To her childrens dismay, Niedzinski used the dinner hour to regale her family with the grittier details of shepherding, including cutting off newborns tails, adopting bummer rejected lambs into her blue-carpeted home and accepting that a sheeps destiny is the slaughterhouse. But this is a Christian living book, not a farmers almanac. To that end, each chapter winsomely approaches the similarities between shepherding and its spiritual parallels found throughout the Bible, where a loving shepherd is needed to guide, protect and shelter humanity. Niedzinski so beautifully depicts her foray into shepherding that readers might be tempted to order a flock for their own spiritual instruction. "" .
