Someone Else’s Sheep
Now Moses was pasturing the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
Exodus 3:1
Moses, a man of forty years old, found pasture in a far away land, on the “back side of the desert”. He had lived his entire life in the palace. After murdering a man, he fled to a far away place, and found favor with a man named Jethro, a priest of Midian. For the next forty years, until he was a man of eighty years old, are scarcely mentioned. He married Jethro’s daughter, had children. And, his greatest achievement to show the world up to that point, as a murder, was tending someone else’s sheep. For forty years.