Conversations with God

Hello God, it's me, Mara:

You know, Lord, while casually going through some papers, this one popped up, so, just sharing a bit: Psalm 23: "He restoreth my soul." One just assumes that belonging to You, Lord, and being in Your care, we'd never become so disserted in soul as to need any sort of restoration, but, low and behold - such is not the case. When we start thinking that we have "arrived", that is when we're most susceptible to become cast (the verb form), like a sheep.

"Cast down" is an old English shepherd's term for a sheep that had turned over on its back and cannot get up again by he...