by Greg Albrecht      First published in the January/February 1999 Plain Truth magazine. Strangers passing by barely noticed an old man tending his sheep in the desert. Forty years earlier, the unknown shepherd had been a prince-big man in a big place. But that was then. Now, the most recent entry on his resume read: "40 years, shepherd in the desert." At 80 years of age, he was forgotten, a has-been, leading sheep around a forsaken desert. Once a young and handsome prince, now an old and forgotten shepherd. One day the shepherd passed a bush that began to burn, and continued to burn, without burning up. ...