“Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff they comfort me.” (Psalm 23:4)
People who have journeyed “through the valley of the shadow of death” come out differently. They are more grateful, more humble, more gentle, more compassionate, and more Christlike. Every day is a gift, and they treat it as such. Every breath they take is an act of divine mercy.
They are no longer consumed with what they have lost but captured and compelled by what they have gained. There is no more entitlement or demandingness, but only peace and grace and gratitude. Love has become primary, and self has become peripheral. They are no longer motivated by need but are free to love.
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