Thursday, April 12, 2007

New Morning

I woke up this morning with this verse on my heart.
I read the familiar passage and like a cool rushing water on a hot day I realized that you are still with me.

Oh Lord you have searched me and you know me.
You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from a far.
You discern my going out and my lying down; You are familiar with all my ways.
Before a word is on my tongue, you know it completely, O Lord.
You hem in me behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; to lofty for me to attain.

Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to the heavens you are there; if I make my bed in the depths you are there.
If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.

If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,"
even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day for darkenss is as light to you.
For you created my inmost being; you knit my together in my mothers womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eye saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

How precious to me are your thoughts O God! How vast is the sum of them!
Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand.

When I awake, I am still with you.

Ps. 129:1-18

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