Laury Browning
3 min readAug 13, 2022
A close-up photo of soft, fluffy white weeds blooming with teeny, purple flowers in a field

You prepare a table for me in the presence of my enemies…(Psalm 23:5)

Something about the 23rd psalm conveys a sense of safety all the way through. Safety and provision.

If I think back and try to pinpoint what I felt the first time I read this passage consciously as a preteen seeker, it’s easy to pinpoint my earliest point of focus: it would have been the enemies. Why would God have laid out a table in the…

Laury Browning

A teacher/writer, the youngest daughter of Pat and Shirley Boone. Perspective: a member of a family with a public persona, and a sort-of preacher’s kid