The Lord has his hand on my shoulder. We re doing it together. Because I know that He ll work it out in the end. My life matters to Him. And that makes it worth living.
Nothing is done in a fog.
Nothing is done apart from His presence, His love, His care. Every place we go, every relationship we make, every act we commit is somehow connected to eternity. Connected because of the hand of the eternal Christ on our shoulder. Shepherds in Jesus' day had very special relationships with their sheep. Their flocks weren't so large that a sheep would be merely one little fuzzy in a large, lanolin-soaked mass of wool.