Your Life. Your Choice.

2011, a woman was snowshoeing in Minnesota, and she came across a gray wolf that was caught in a foothold trap.

Gray wolves are... endangered species in Minnesota.

So she knew that it was not, didn't belong appropriately to a trapper.

And so she decided that she needed to set the wolf free from this foothold trap.

She was a lover of animals and So she took her snowshoe and tried to use it kind of as a screen to keep the wolf away as she was dealing with the foothold trap to try and set him free.

He attacked her.

And he broke her arm and lunged for her neck, but got her shoulder at her collarbone.

And she was able to roll away and called the rangers who came to rescue both her and deal with the wolf.

And as the rangers came, she just kept saying to the wolf, I mean, to the rangers, please don't hurt the wolf.

He didn't understand that I was trying to save him.

And he just felt threatened.

And that's why he attacked me.

Turns out that, you know, she turned out to be okay.

He, the wolf, they tested him for rabies.

He did not have rabies.

And so they let him go and set him free in the wild.

It's really an analogy, a beautiful one, I think, or an appropriate one for our scripture today as Jesus is just wanting to save Jerusalem.

I just want to save them.

Maybe saying to you and me, I just want to save you.

But instead, they turn on him because they felt threatened.

So let's look at the geography one more time.