Life is Hard...and that's ok.
I'm a recovering idealist. It has taken a while to allow myself the freedom to live in reality. I was pondering Psalm 23 the other day in a different kind of way. That psalm is read at funerals and celebrated for the hope it brings when things are tough. I am wondering if David was making an observation about life itself. There is this author, Phillip Keller. He was a British shepherd man of God. Yes, that means he was a true shepherd of sheep and he was a man of God. He wrote about wonderful words about Jesus the Shepherd of the human race and the similarities between the sheep and our human existence. One thing that really stood out was the cycle of life that transpired in one year for the herd. This cycle was very similar to the cycle David writes about in Psalm 23. I know that it is our tendency to pull apart verses and focus on one more than another, but imagine taking apart a masterpiece painting; li...