The Darkest Valley
“Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will not be afraid, for You are close beside me.” Many of us are familiar with the passage of Psalm 23 from learning it in church, or maybe even from a funeral scene in a movie. I wonder, though, how many of us have really explored a specific word in it? “...though I walk THROUGH the darkest valley. (Some versions say “Through the Shadow of Death.”) Through, used as a preposition in this sentence, means 2 things. 1) moving in one side and out of the other side of a location, 2) continuing in time toward completion of a process or period. Zero in with me on ‘ moving and continuing .’ Did you notice these words have nothing to do with staying still? They a...