The Privilege

a Book by Kay Smith

The Bedouin Woman in Bethlehem reached down and picked up a handful of rocks. A shepherdess will sometimes throw a pebble-gently- when a sheep starts to wander away from the fold. This calls them back to safety. But this women didn't throw gently. She wore an angry scowl and threw those rocks with vengeance. She didn't want to be in that field tending those sheep. She wanted to be anyplace else in the world. At times, we find ourselves standing in a field we didn't choose for ourselves, tending to a task we never wanted. But when the call to that field- and the sheep it contains- comes from God Himself, then you've just been given a privilege. The Privilege is a loving conversation, between friends. Kay Smith has a special place in her heart for pastors' wives and women in leadership - for any woman who has been asked to nurture and feed others.