159/365: The Lord is my shepherd
As we boarded the plane for England today, my husband handed a small prayer card to me and simply said, ‘I brought this for you.’ The holy card bore an image of the Good Shepherd, and was inscribed with the 23rd psalm. The words and image kindled a good many memories in me: the choice we had made of the Good Shepherd as the image that should grace the prayer cards made as souvenirs for our own baptism…the 23rd psalm repeated by mourners at my father-in-law’s Anglican funeral. But the green pastures into which the Lord...