Psalm 23 – Video – Bobby McFerrin

* Submitted by Doug Hart

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This is Mary Baker Eddy’s spiritual interpretation of Ps 23 from Science and Health p 578 but before that, from the Glossary of spiritual terms at the back of the book:

OIL. Consecration; charity; gentleness; prayer; heavenly inspiration

VALLEY. Depression; meekness; darkness.
“Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.” (Psalm xxiii. 4.)
Though the way is dark in mortal sense, divine Life and Love illumine it, destroy the unrest of mortal thought, the fear of death, and the supposed reality of error.

PSALM XXIII

[DIVINE LOVE] is my shepherd; I shall not want. 

[LOVE] maketh me to lie down in green pastures: [LOVE] leadeth me beside the still waters.

[LOVE] restoreth my soul [spiritual sense]: [LOVE] leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake. 

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for [LOVE] is with me; [LOVE’S] rod and [LOVE’S] staff they comfort me. 

[LOVE] prepareth a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: [LOVE] anointeth my head with oil; my cup runneth over. 

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house [the consciousness] of [LOVE] for ever.