The story of David is the story of a Shepherd defending the holy flock of the Lord. But it is the Lord who saves them. For God is the true Shepherd of Israel.

The boomer generation may well be the last generation that has significant memories of growing up on a farm. Anyone here a farmer? Anyone lived either on a farm, or a ranch, or know someone who does? If you live on the land, particularly in undeveloped areas or frontier regions, one of your major concerns are predators. Today, your threat may be as benign as a rabbit or a rat climbing under your fence to consume your lettuce, carrots, or tulips in your carefully cultivated garden. It may be the ways you defend your corn from maggots, moles or rootworms. Or your grains and fruit trees from parasites, aphids, or pesticides.

Or you ma…