A young mother took her family to the Houston Live Stock show where the family was showing a calf to be judged.  She had a young son who she took with her.  She put a leash on the little kid and tied it to a stall and the child could run around and sit down and play – all within the length of the leash.  Several people stopped by and told her that what she was doing to that child was wrong.  Children don’t belong tied to a leash.  The event manager even stopped by to ‘have a talk’ with her.  She told him that the little boy was perfectly all right.  He couldn’t get too far away, or too close to the animals, and he was perfectly content to play where she had put him.

He was unaware that this leash was holding him down because he could not be trusted as to how far he could go, or where he could go.

Are you perfectly content with the leash around your neck?  You can’t get too far away.  You can’t get too close to the animals.  You are safe.  Nobody has  to worry about you because you have a rope tying you down.  You can go as far as you want to – until you run out of rope!