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Sunday, July 5, 2020

The Lord is my Shepherd

Old Dinah tripped and fell flat on her face

She felt blood in her mouth as tried to shout.

The only sound, she could hear, was the loud noise of the splattering rain.

Help! Lord! Help!

She kept reciting lines from psalms 23 in her head the only thing she knew what to do before she passed out.

  4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. KJV

Meanwhile, Mary, her neighbor who lived down the road

Found herself getting nudged to the front door.

Copper! It’s raining. It’s not the right time to go out now!” she shouted at her dog.

He just stood still, cocking his ear to the side and then started barking in urgency.

Scratching the door and looking and barking intently at her...

“What is it...is something wrong! OK go! She opened the door.

 Just to see Copper bounding off in the rain with great speed towards Dinah’s house.

Dinah! O God, please don’t tell me something bad happen has happened to her...

Following the dog, soaking wet, she reached Dinah’s house and heard him barking urgently inside the house.

She too jumped in through the open window. Shocked! She saw Dinah lying face down in a pool of blood.

She quickly knelt down and felt for her pulse and heaved a sigh of relief when she finally got one.

She is still breathing, hurry Copper, let’s get some help!

Hearing her cries and the loud barks of the dog the other neighbors too started pouring in and together they got Dinah to the hospital.

After a hip surgery and four weeks in the hospital.

Dinah smiled ready to go home.

“We had contacted your son, Dinah

He couldn’t come but he has asked us to send you

To a nursing home as you are no longer fit to stay on your own, her doctor told her, breaking the news to her as gently as he can.

No worries, doctor, she said continuing to smile.

“Wherever I will be,

My good shepherd will take care of me.

Continuing With a twinkle in eye...she said

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever….Ps 23...

Yes, he said, bending down to give the old woman a hug.

“When the good shepherd is with us there is nothing to worry about “

He said, feeling a tear drop down his cheek as he turned to walk away.

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