As many Sunday school teachers do, Miss Johnson pulled together her young students so they could prepare to memorize Psalm 23. She approached the pastor wanting to have the students present their memory work to the whole congregation on Sunday morning a month from that date.

Little Bobby was initially excited about the memorization and being able to recite his part before the church. He wanted to invite his grandmother to watch him do it. Unfortunately Bobby froze when it came to memorizing just about anything. He tried and tried. His parents helped him but he just couldn’t remember the psalm. After a month of practice he could not remember any more than “The Lord is my shepherd.”

That fateful Sunday arrived. The small class walked single file up to the front of the church. All were smil…