The Lord Is My Shepherd
Chapter One
A Psalm of David
Can fifteen beautiful lines from a single page of the Bible change
your life? I believe they can, if you are willing to open your heart
to their magic. Listen closely to them, read them with an open mind
and an open heart, and you will find the answers to questions you
are asking, questions about yourself, the people around you, and the
world in which you and they live.
I would guess that there is one, and only one, chapter of the Bible
that most people in the English-speaking world know by heart. We may
remember a lot of sto- ries about Adam and Eve, Noah, Joseph, and
Moses. We may be able to recite the Ten Commandments, parts of the
Sermon on the Mount, and other passages that have entered into our
literature. But when it comes to an entire chapter, I suspect that
the only one we remember completely is chapter twenty-three of the
Book of Psalms, the Twenty-third Psalm, "The Lord is my shepherd, I
shall not want...."
Even if you cannot recite the entire psalm perfectly, you know it
well enough to say it along with a congregation, the way many of us
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