Psalm 23 is a childhood favorite of mine. A reminder that I’m never alone; I’m provided for and taken care of…always. It comes to mind occasionally and this week, it kept coming up for me, so here ’tis for all.<\/p>\n
The Lord is My Shepherd; I shall not want.<\/p>\n
He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.<\/p>\n
He restores my soul.<\/span><\/strong><\/em> He leads me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.<\/p>\n Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for You are with me. Your rod and Your staff they comfort me.<\/p>\n You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.<\/p>\n Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life<\/strong><\/span><\/em>; and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.<\/p>\n Psalm 23 continues to be a prayer, a meditative piece and a source of reassurance for me.<\/p>\n I believe these words carry so much value for me<\/em> because they speak comfort, peace, protection, favor and healing.<\/p>\n Which Scriptures, songs, poems bring you comfort and encouragement?<\/p>\n May I suggest that we meditate on one daily and memorize one a week?<\/p>\n Common Day Hero:<\/strong><\/em><\/span> Your devotion to the “least of these” is inspiring. Your heart for equality and equity for all is such a gift. I look forward to seeing and hugging you again…air hugs for now and I dedicate this post to you, SusannaT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Psalm 23 is a childhood favorite of mine. A reminder that I’m never alone; I’m provided for and taken care of…always. It comes to mind occasionally and this week, it kept coming up for me, so here ’tis for all. The Lord is My Shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[82,241,239,240,48],"class_list":["post-3376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comfort","tag-provision","tag-psalm","tag-psalm23","tag-scripture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lalijean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/katherine-hanlon-Td3X-0efWxI-unsplash.jpg?fit=1920%2C1242&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3376"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3384,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376\/revisions\/3384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}