His own sheep by name and leads them

Sometimes almost worth the dryness and the noise to get to that place where the Lord responds as the Good Shepherd that He is and restores. Perhaps the greatest of the psalms (23) states that no less. After the lying down and the stillness, it is your joy He restores. Dryness and noise take that away from you; struggle masks it; valleys pull you so far away. And yet when He restores, there is no greater feeling than that onrush, that flood of living water that tells you that no dryness exists that will parch you beyond His coolness, no noise exists louder than that ocean breaking. And surely goodness, mercy follow, His house forever and ever.