When we relinquish a dualistic reading of Psalm 23:3, we begin to realize that the psalmist intuited what neuroscientists and therapists have been finding millennia later. We do not have—nor are we able—to jump from trauma to trust or from fear to faith. Rather, we have a Shepherd who finds us in our fear, breathes us back from breathlessness, and brings us back home. Faith isn’t jumping over our feelings and sensations. Faith is being found where we are sinking and choosing to climb with Christ back home.
