Pondering

There was something that happened when we first got here that I've been pondering about and honestly, I didn't know cows acted this way. Dan's grandma and grandpa have a herd of cows and they have been having calves the last couple weeks. The day before we got here there was a snowstorm and the ditch filled with water. One of the calves fell in the ditch and drown and the mother, Posey, wandered around for the next couple days looking for her little calf. There was another cow that had a calf the morning after we got here and Posey would always go check to see if that was her calf. Dan, Orson and I went out to look at the chickens and horses and stuff around their place and I looked out in the field and saw something that touched my heart. This black cow with the new calf was over next to Posey licking her side and nugging her. Posey's head was down and defeated and here was this other cow comforting her and doing her "visiting teaching" as Dan called it. It makes me tear up even thinking about it now. I didn't know cows even acted like that. It made me ponder about what I would do in that situation as a human being. I would think that someone who has gone through something so painful wouldn't want someone around to tell them how sorry they were. But these cows didn't need words and didn't act awkward about it. After seeing this, I would hope that I could just be the person that could stand next to them and comfort them, no words just actions. I know this is kind of deep for a blog but it really opened my eyes to be a little more loving and have the charity to love with actions rather than words.