   The 23rd Psalm The Great Father above is a Shepherd Chief. I am His and I want not. He throws out to me a rope, and the name of the rope is love. And He draws me and He draws me, and He draws me to a place where the grass is green, the water is good, and I eat and I lie down satisfied. Sometimes my heart is very weak and it falls down. But He lifts it up again and draws me onto a road that is good. His name is Wonderful. Sometimes - it may be many moons - or it may be a few moons, He will draw me into a place between mountains. It is dark there, but I'll be afraid not; I'll draw back not, for it is there between these mountains that The Shepherd Chief will meet with me, and the hunger that I have felt will be satisfied. Sometimes, The Shepherd Chief makes the love rope into a whip, but afterwards, He gives me a staff to lean on. He spreads a table before me with all kinds of good food. He puts His hand on my head and all the tired is gone. My cup He fills till it runs over. What I tell you is true, I lie not. These roads that lay ahead will be with me all through this life - and afterwards, I will go to live in The Big Tipi and will sit down with The Shepherd Chief forever. AHO 
Originating at Saddle Mountain KIOWA Indian Nation.
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