All That We Need

“The Lord is my shepherd; I lack nothing.” The sermon pressed into the tension between that confession and the realities people actually carry. For many of us, “lack” is connected to excess. It is the ache of wanting what we do not need, or the anxiety of comparing our lives to someone else’s. It can’t stay there because some forms of lack are not emotional or aspirational. Some lack is hunger. Some lack is not knowing where you will sleep. Some lack is immediate and life-shaping.