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Then Samuel returned to Ramah.<\/em><\/p>\n<cite>Today we are looking at (a fictional) letter from David to his sister Zeruiah based on 1 Samuel 16:13 above.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Dearest Sister,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ah, the house felt warmer, the laughter richer, and the burdens lighter during your brief sojourn back to our humble abode. Your presence, like a soft melody, lingers in the corners of our home and in the recesses of my heart. I felt your protective gaze when Eliab&#8217;s words sought to pierce me like arrows when I did my chores after dinner. You&#8217;ve always been the shield to my sword, haven&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The youngest son of any family always bears two distinctions, no matter if it is true or not: He is considered to be both spoiled and uninformed. Usually little is expected of him. Inevitably, he displays fewer characteristics of leadership than other children in the family. As a child, he never leads. He only follows, for he has no one younger on whom to practice leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kith and kin cannot always tell when a man is grown, even when looking straight at him. Only you would say that I am grown. To everyone, I am always a kid. That&#8217;s why all the &#8220;grown men&#8221; worked near their father\u2019s farm, while the kid was sent on treks into the mountains to graze the family\u2019s small flock of sheep. But I am not complaining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spare time for a sheep-herder is abundant on rich mountain plateaus where sheep can graze for days in one sequestered meadow. But as time passed and days became weeks, it became very lonely. The feeling of friendlessness that always roamed inside became magnified. So I played the harp a great deal. And I often sang to God. When these activities failed to comfort, I gathered up a pile of stones and, one by one, swung them at a distant tree with great fury. I engaged in many such solitary battles that I could tell every rock precisely where to go.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once, while singing my lungs out to God, I spied a living enemy: a huge bear, and he was after a small lamb of mine. I lunged forward, and the bear changed direction and charged at me with foaming madness. I reached into my pocket for a stone and swung it through the air to kill the beast, right between its eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wrote this song after that, &#8220;My little lamb, I am your shepherd, and God is mine!&#8221; Someday I will sing it for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you find it strange that after the remarkable day, the day came the prophet, Samuel, with his horn of oil; he anointed me, and yet, life resumed its usual rhythm. The sheep still need tending, the meals still need preparation, and Eliab&#8230; well, he still needs humbling. 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