Tanglewoods' Secret1980

Mr. Robinson:
[as Ruth is having breakfast] What are you going to do now? Do you *really* think your Aunt would send you to Boarding School if you went back to her?

[Ruth notices a portrait on the opposite wall]

Mr. Robinson:
Do you like it?

Ruth:
Reminds me of a shepherd at home. He lost one of his lambs and was looking for it. I went too. Do you know we wouldn't have found it if it hadn't started crying. Mr. Tandy heard it, and there it was all caught up in the bushes. It couldn't get out. The poor little thing must've gone an awful long way.

Mr. Robinson:
That was a daft thing for it to do wasn't it? Got itself into a whole pile of trouble. It reminds me a bit of you.

Ruth:
What do you mean?

Mr. Robinson:
Well you looked cold and lost when I found you in my church this morning. You'd run as far as you could, you didn't want to go home, you were stuck, and you don't know what to do now do you? Do you know who that shepherd is?

[Ruth shakes her head]

Mr. Robinson:
It's Jesus, the Good Shepherd. And we're, we're like the sheep. We all run off, do what we want to do, and it lands us in trouble. Sometimes much worse trouble than you're in. But like your friend Mr. Tandy, the Good Shepherd doesn't forget us, and all we have to do is, is cry out.

Ruth:
[puts the breakfast tray on a table] Then what?

Mr. Robinson:
I know you can't see Him, but He's here, now with you and me, waiting for you to be found. If you ask the Good Shepherd to go home with you, He will. And He'll start to mend things for you.