FEBRUARY 16, 2025
A Poem Inspired by Psalm 23 I wrote this poem last summer at camp, during our spiritual retreat halfway through the summer. They told all of us to go outside and work on a creative way to kind of process through everything we were learning. I tend to overthink and stress when it comes to creative elements like this, and it makes it feel like more of a task than it should. I tend to think I am not super creative and other people will do something better or cooler than I can, so I had reserved in my mind to just leave it alone and not pressure myself to do a creative element at all. But then, as I was sitting outside, reading through John 10, about Jesus being the Good Shepherd, and His sheep knowing the sound of His voice, it was reminiscent to me of Psalm 23, which also speaks of the Lord being our shepherd. I can't really explain what happened next other than I sat and looked around, and felt compelled to write. I would pause every now and again while writing to feel out all the...
