If we believe, from the narrative of Psalm 23, Barbara Moyer Lehman told her parishioners at the Park View Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, VA, in the fourth sermon of Easter, that God is our shepherd, then we believe that he will meet our every need, protect us and lead us to fuller lives (green pastures). He is a God of provision in every way. The Psalmist is echoed in the words of Jesus, when he says that "I have come that you may have life, the more abundant life."