The One: A story retold of the shepherd's search for the lost sheep - the parable from the Father's eyes (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781066754878)

Ninety-nine are safe. One is missing.

We know the parable. We have heard it preached, printed on cards, set to music. The shepherd goes out, the shepherd finds, the shepherd carries home rejoicing. We have heard the ending so often that we no longer ask what the going out cost him.

This is that story told slowly. Not the finding - the searching. The hours on the hill with nothing in his arms. The calling into a dark that does not answer. What it is to be the one who goes, and what it is to be the one who is gone, and the plain fact that while the search is happening both of them are lost.

The One is a short book written in the middle of a loss, not looking back on one. It does not tidy the parable or hurry to its ending. It asks the question the ending usually covers over: what was it like for him, out there, before he found anything at all?

Book two of the Not Home Yet trilogy.