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Joh 10:9 I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.
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Joh 10:16 And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.
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Eze 34:12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his sheep that have been scattered, so will I seek out my sheep, and I will rescue them from all places where they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness.
Eze 34:13 And I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land. And I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the ravines, and in all the inhabited places of the country.
Eze 34:14 I will feed them with good pasture, and on the mountain heights of Israel shall be their grazing land. There they shall lie down in good grazing land, and on rich pasture they shall feed on the mountains of Israel.
Eze 34:15 I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I myself will make them lie down, declares the Lord GOD.

Precious Saviour, Good and True Shepherd of the sheep, we will follow you.
I know you are watching us so we don't stray, and lead us into that Kingdom and Pasture which delight is unmatched by anything on earth.
I know you will provide all your lambs with what they need.
You will keep us calm and ours fear quiet.
You guard us from all harm.
Let the comfort of your Presence and the Lovely sound of your Singing over us be our great Joy today.
Thank you Jesus.

http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/g/l/glovmysi.htm

The God of love my Shepherd is,
And He that doth me feed;
While He is mine and I am His,
What can I want or need?

He leads me to the tender grass,
Where I both feed and rest;
Then to the streams that gently pass:
In both I have the best.

Or if I stray, He doth convert,
And bring my mind in frame,
And all this not for my desert,
But for His holy Name.

Yea, in death’s shady black abode
Well may I walk, not fear;
For Thou art with me, and Thy rod
To guard, Thy staff to bear.

Surely Thy sweet and wondrous love
Shall measure all my days;
And as it never shall remove
So neither shall my praise.

Abba, Father, hear me call You --
What a gift given by Your Son,
To call You, O most holy One,
And know You are my parent, too.

You, who breathed upon the water
At the dawning of all things,
You, the source from which all springs,
Let me call you Abba, Father.

Let Your name be ever holy
In our hearts and in our minds,
Yours the love that heals and finds
Place to care for weak and lowly.

Abba, Father, hear my prayer,
Shape me in Your loving hand,
Lover of my soul, I stand
Before You thankful for Your care.

Grateful, let my song arise,
Abba, Father, for your love
That lets my heart soar above --
Keep me ever in Your eyes.

I know of few prayers or meditations that are richer than the 23rd psalm...I keep returning to it for inspiration over and over again, and it keeps sneaking into my poems!

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.

The current crop of linguists say that the valley of the shadow means a deeply shadowed valley, and tend not to add "of death" to the current crop of translations.

But if you have been in the West you can find many treacherous valleys that are very narrow, shadowed, where you cannot see the road ahead of you or behind. These have in the past been places of ambush. You do not know the road head, what dangers lurk, and you cannot always see where you've come from. The warming light of the sun can be blocked out, and even though it is day, all is darker than it would be if you were out in the open.

Will there be a rock slide as you traverse the valley? will you drive it too fast and smash into a wall? Will bandits be up ahead? Will there be a rain that swells and makes the valley impassable? You cannot know the answers ahead. You have to keep on, in trust that you will make it through. It is a place where death is possible, a place where danger may be real.

Lots of time in life we are in those valleys, where we can't see our way out, we don't know what exactly lies ahead, and frequently, the dark has us frightened of the possibilities.

But for those of us who believe, we know we are not alone. For He IS with us, each and every step of the way, and when we are out of the dark valley, he will truly lead us into the green pastures which will be our home forever.

There in the Valley of the Shadow of Death,
Where God takes us to learn about who gives us breath
Each step that we take may seem heavy with threat
As we face then the truths we would rather forget.

It does not matter if we laugh or weep,
Be in pain or shock or fear or sleep,
Eternity hovers but a moment away
To walk with us into that unending day.

We think that so often we stand in the sun,
Yet through that dark valley our footsteps did run.
Someone was there one moment and not the next,
This frailty of mankind is an ancient text.

Yet Valley of the Shadow, when I'm in your way,
I chose not fear you by night or by day,
Ambush or pain or dark uncertainty
Shall not hide the gift of light by which I see.

My Shepherd he leads me by day and by night
Through the darkness of death to his glorious sight -
In his hand is the peace that makes no worldly sense
When the shadows of midnight grow dark and dense.

If trembling I wait there between death and life,
Doubled over in pain cutting hard like a knife,
He still is my comfort and lets my heart see
I am in his hands whatever will be.

Valley of the Shadow, you are but a gate,
Doorway to tomorrow, all humankind's fate.
My final hope lies beyond your shadowed door,
Where I will dwell in my Lord's house forever more.