I didn't plan A Psalm 23 Summer.

That's the honest beginning. I didn't sit down with a content calendar and decide the summer needed a theme. I didn't set a goal or build a framework. What happened was quieter than that — and more like being stopped in your tracks than anything else.

I was overwhelmed in the way that May and the end of the school year usually overwhelms me. I was on my phone trying to numb out and the algorithm got me. Before I knew it I was planning to bake bread, join a workout class, organize and deep clean the house and subscribe to a craft of the month club!!

In that moment I wanted to throw my phone! But instead, I took a breath and prayed, “Lord how do I have a summer of intention and peace?” and immediately, Psalm 23 entered my heart.

The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want.

And I felt it — not just heard it, felt it — as an invitation. Not a command. Not a task. An invitation from a Shepherd who knew I had been moving too fast, wanting too much, striving in all the quiet spaces where rest was supposed to live.

He was saying: come. Follow me somewhere slower this summer.

So here we are.

A Psalm 23 Summer is a six-part series moving slowly through this psalm — one thread at a time. The Shepherd. The still waters. The valley I didn't ask to walk through. The table set in hard places. The mercy that has been following me the whole time, if only I would turn around and look.

I'll be writing personally. Vulnerably. Not from the other side of everything, but from inside it. Because I think that's what this psalm actually is — not a retrospective about peace, but a present-tense declaration made in the middle of real life, with real valleys, with real enemies at the table.

I don't know exactly what this summer holds. But I know who is leading.

If you want to read along, I'm glad. If this arrived in your life at a moment when you needed an invitation to slow down — consider yourself officially invited. The Shepherd is ahead. The pasture is greener than the pace you've been keeping. There is a still water with your name on it.

The series begins June 1st.

And because I wanted to give you something tangible to hold: I've created a free Psalm 23 Summer Starter Kit — a six-week reading plan, thirty journal prompts, a daily rhythm template, a weekly habit tracker, and scripture memory cards. It's waiting for you [LINK].

Come slowly. Come as you are.

I'm so glad you're here.