More about the "Little Ones"

More about the “Little Ones”
Matthew 18.8-14

Our neighbour was walking by the beach one day, with her dog, when suddenly the dog stopped and sniffed, and looked puzzled and wary. She stopped too, but she couldn’t see anything. Then she looked hard at the rocks in front of the dog, just above the line of the tide.

And then she saw it. It was a baby seal, camouflaged against the colour of rocks and sea, washed up and unable to get away. It was far more frightened of the dog and the human than the dog was of it. Its reaction was interesting, indeed charming. It had put up its flippers in a half-successful attempt to cover its face. That’s not what a seal’s flippers were meant for, but it was the best it could do. If it covered its face, it seemed to think, it would be in less danger...

Taken from Matthew for Everyone – by Tom Wright