[Spirit Dancer]

For Deb and her family,
RIP Rose
The Twenty Third Psalm
(Native American Version )

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 is 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 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 be afraid not, for it is between those mountains that the SHEPHERD CHIEF will meet me
and the hunger that I have in my heart all through 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 foods.
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.

These roads that are " away ahead " will stay with me through this life
and after; and afterwards I will go to live in the Big Teepee
and sit down with the SHEPHERD CHIEF forever.