Desperately Seeking Donkey

Donkey

By Joanbanjo CC-BY-SA-3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

A long time ago, I heard a sermon, and the preacher told this story:

Once there was a little donkey who was owned by a Trader-Man. The two of them moved across the countryside, farm to farm, tiny town to tiny town. She carried all the goods he had for trading on her back. Seed corn and horse shoes, iron pots and bolts of cloth. It was all bundled into a mountainous pack stacked so high the top of it rose up taller than the Trader-Man’s tal...