The Lord & The shepherd

(Jesus Christ, as the Good Shepherd, appears as the guide, the protector, the healer and shepherd of his sheep, who need spiritual food, healing, care and mercy. Jesus Christ, the Good Shepherd, finds joy in seeing the weak and suffering sheep to find their way towards spiritual healing.

 

This is the thought that struck me when I saw this Shepherd with his flock at Daringbadi -  a hill station in Kandhamal district of Odisha in eastern India, widely known as "Kashmir of Odisha".

 

While I struck up a conversation with him in his village I was happy to learn that his people  rarely buy anything from the local market for their survival. 

They do their own  organic farming and are largely self-sufficient.

 

This is my attempt to capture on canvas the similarity I saw and felt of the divine presence in our everyday lives).