Faith in God is Faith in One's Own Ability to Bring About God's Purposes: Psalm 23, The Spies, Langston Hughes, and the Positivity Bias

Psalm 23 is usually read as about a dead person getting to go through the valley of death and then live in God's house, but I read it, like the Mourner's Kaddish, as about a living person who goes through the experience of having a loved one die and transforms one's life from being in the depths to rising up to a life of living in this life in God's house, at the table in front of one's foes.  I demonstrate this with two poems by Langston Hughes on how he, and all of us, will be part of a movement to change America so he sits at the table in God's house in front of those who would not let him sit there before.  It's the positivity bias of Caleb and Joshua, of seeing a future that one makes happen.  The key to it all is that faith in God, and faith in oneself in bringing about God's purposes, are practically indistinguishable according to Torah.  You bring about living in God's house.  We all need to do that with America.