A nose fly lands on a sheep. It doesn't bite. It lays eggs in the sheep's nose, and the larvae travel up into its head — and the sheep, driven out of its mind by something it cannot shake loose, runs into dangerous places and beats its own skull against a tree until it kills itself.

The shepherd's answer was oil. Poured over the head, before the season ever started.

This message sits inside one verse of Psalm 23 and asks what David actually meant by "You anoint my head with oil" — and why that line lands so hard for anyone walking around with a mind that won't quiet down. Fear. Criticism. Comparison. Anxiety. Financial pressure. Unfinished conversations you keep rehearsing. Regret. Something at home nobody knows about yet.

Along the way: why the only route to the tabletop runs through the valley, why the Shepherd takes His sheep ...