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Look for the Green Bible in a Year: Micah 1–3 Revelation 11 The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. Psalm 23:1 Today's Scripture & Insight: Psalm 23 The gravelly voiced captain announced yet another delay. Crammed in my window seat aboard a plane that had already sat unmoving for two hours, I chafed in frustration. After a long workweek away, I longed for the comfort and rest of home. How much longer? As I gazed out the raindrop-covered window, I noticed a lonely triangle of green grass growing in the gap of cement where runways met. Such an odd sight in the middle of that concrete. As an experienced shepherd, David knew well the need provide the rest of green pastures for his sheep. In Psalm 23, he penned an important lesson that would carry him forward in the exhausting days of leading as king of Israel. “The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. He makes lie down in green pastures, . . . he refreshes my soul” (vv. 1–3). the concrete jungle of an airport tarmac, delayed from my destination and feeling the lack of comfort and rest, God, my good Shepherd, directed my eyes a patch of green. In relationship with Him, I can discover His ongoing provision of rest wherever I am—if I notice and enter it. The lesson has lingered over the years: look for the green. It’s there. With God in our lives, we lack nothing. He makes us lie down in green pastures. He refreshes our souls. Reflect & Pray Where can you look for the green today? In what ways has God provided a moment of rest when you thought it was impossible? Loving God, thank You for being my Shepherd and for making me lie down in green pastures to refresh my soul. 
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As I was sitting alone, after my husband died, I was praying for some encouragement and the Lord led me to Psalms 23.... I resisted. I didn't want the funeral verses, I wanted encouraging words. But the Lord "read" it me, expounding on each and every point until I understood the encouragement and comfort that is contained there. My eyes were opened to things I'd never seen before. Life is a lot like that. We need to look for those little things of encouragement and comfort that are all around us, but we often overlook. Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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I was moved to recite Psalms 23 several times to my then husband while he was in the distressing throes of the DT's (delerium tremens - alcohol withdrawal). It had the effect of eventually soothing him. Amen
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I used to have the habit of collecting dirt from every state I had ever been in. My son and I went New York courtesy of the Murry Provich Show, He was the show because of his encounter with a bear. It is very difficult the find soil in New York City. Finally there was fallen tree with soil attached to it. As I was getting the soil from the roots of the tree, my son was declaring "Mom!!! You are acting weird again!!!" Abracadabra 
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12/21/2020 6:19 am |
We have a similar problem here in the neighborhood every summer. invasive grass sprouts up in places between the concrete curbing & the asphalt paved street. If left to thrive it will eventually mess up the asphalt. So in order to remedy the situation I take some grass/weed killer & spray it----killing it deader than a door nail until the following spring when it comes back again. It is an awful bluestem grass that grows all over the place here and the sheep don't like it as well as native variety grass that still grows over most of the state.
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