Restoring the soul

Monday May 8th, Psalm 23: He makes me lie down in green pastures, and leads me beside quiet waters. He restores my soul and guides me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. There is a restoring that goes on in the presence of the Lord. When we gather in the word, when we hear the stories, when we feel the presence of a loving community, we are refreshed and restored. Sometime we like to take our own paths in life and claim them as the Lord, when we do, we find the community is broken, restoration is broken, anger, selfishness and war break out. When we again look to the Lord and the ways of the Lord, we find there community, healing and wholeness, we find there paths of righteousness. Righteousness that comes from God. The righteousness the comes from the self, self-righteousness, lives in a world of conflict and tends to point to what others are doing wrong. The path of righteousness that comes from God is the path that leads to wholeness and peace.