Thursday, September 14, 2006
by Kristen
Thank you all for being so patient for an update! Sorry that I've been so delayed. Things have been very busy here....we have had hospice nurses in and out for my grandpa, and lots of company. I just want to thank you all for praying for us, and let you know that we are probably going to lose my grandpa in not too terribly long...It seems right now that the Lord has decided to take him home to heal him. Grandpa is such a servant; these last few weeks have been very hard for him...he's had to get used to being served and being the center of attention. Thank you again for your prayers; I just wish I had better news for you all!
This psalm is so comforting....the psalmist wrote it so beautifully, and it touches me, so I wanted to share it with you.
O Lord, you have searched me
and you know me.
You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar
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 me in behind and before;
you have laid your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too 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 darkness is as light to you.
For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's 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 eyes 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.
.....
Search me, O God, and
know my heart;
test me and know my
anxious thoughts.
See if there is any offensive
way in me,
and lead me in the way
everlasting.
Psalm 139:1-18, 23-24
:)
