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Psalms 23

"The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want." The familiar words roll off my tongue as I sit in Ms. Doreen's board house. "He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; He leadeth me beside the still waters." There's so many memories wrapped up in this passage. Reciting it to my grandpa and receiving my $1 prize. Family devotions. Sunday morning sermons. And now another memory added. Sweating in a poor Grenadian home. "He restoreth my soul." My grandpa and my father both describe the soul as your mind, will and emotions. When He restores my soul, He restores those three things.  The battle of the mind is very real. I've seen others cave in the fight, recently the mother who shot her son, then herself. Sickness in the mind is very powerful. But He can restore it. My will. What I want to do, or don't want to do. What I get passionate or excited about. What drives me. And when I have no will, no passion, no excitem...