AN INDIAN VERSION OF THE TWENTY-THIRD PSALM
The Great Father above a Shepherd Chief is. I am His and with Him I want not. He throws out to me a rope, and the name of the rope is Love and He draws me to where the grass is green and the water not dangerous, and I eat and lie down and am satisfied. Sometimes my heart is very weak and falls down but He lifts me up again and draws me into a good road. His name is "Wonderful” Sometimes, it may be very soon, it may be a long, long time, He will draw me into a valley. It is dark there, but I'll draw back not, I'll be afraid not. For it is in between those mountains that the Shepherd Chief will meet me, and the hunger that I have in my heart all through this life will be satisfied. Sometimes He makes the love rope into a whip, but afterwards He gives me a staff to lean upon. He spreads a table before me with all kinds of food. He puts His hand upon my head and all the "tired ” is gone. My cup He fills till it runs over. What I tell is true, I lie not. There roads that are "away ahead" will stay with me through this life, and after; and afterwards I will go to live in the Big Tepee and sit down with the Shepherd Chief forever.
This interpretation is by Isabel Crawford and the
Production is by Cook Christian School, Phoenix.