The Psalm, which starts: “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures” (ESV) has been turned into countless songs and posters but it will now be portrayed as a garden space at the popular Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show 2020.
It’s a collaboration between The Bible Society and Sarah Eberle, an award-winning garden designer.
In a trailer for the Psalm 23 garden, she said: “I just felt it’s so relevant because reading through the psalm again, it’s like, wow, I know where that relates to – it’s where I come to be peaceful, where I come when I’m troubled and when I’m happy and it’s this place.
“The thing I’m hoping for at Chelsea is for the visitors to be stopped and for them to find some sort of emotional communication with the garden and to want to stay and feel the peace and the restoration.
“There’s always a personal view on any garden I design,” said Eberle. “I grew up around Dartmoor. Walking the lanes, I saw the way the light played in the ferns. It was incredible.
“The inspiration is about spirituality, that sense of wellbeing, of arriving at a special place and a sense of being able to breathe, to feel comforted, to feel a sense of belonging, if you like.”
The Bible Society are also encouraging people to read the psalm and learn more about it through the project.
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