Forever

Forever.
First?
The Lord is my shepherd.
I shall not want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures
He leads me beside still waters
                               waters of rest.
There is an importance to the progression of this psalm. I want to jump to forever. I want to rest in God's eternal presence and skip over the good reality that He is fully forever just as He is shepherd, just as He fulfills, satisfies me when I am thirsty and hungry, lonely and distraught, angry and discontent. There is beautiful things about God I want to skip over because I want to move toward something. There is no physical movement in rest, yet even in this reality there is a more beautiful truth, that emotional and spiritual movement so often are most real when I am on sitting down, kneeling, or face down, in total weakness and need.