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 is not dangerous, and I lie down satisfied.
                 
Sometimes my heart is weak and falls down, but He lifts it up again and draws me into a good road.  His name is Wonderful. 

Sometimes, it may be very soon, it may be longer, it may be a long time, He will draw me into a place between these mountains.  It is dark here, but I shall draw not back, I shall be afraid not, for it is between these mountains that the Shepherd Chief will meet me, and the hunger that I have felt in my heart all through this life will be satisfied.  Sometimes He makes this rope of love 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, doubt not.  These roads that are “away ahead” will stay with me through all this life, and then afterwards I will go to live in the “Big Tepee” and will sit down with the Shepherd Chief forever and evermore.

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