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Showing posts with label Psalm 139. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Psalm 139. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Almightygod (@almightygod) is now following your tweets (@sean_fuller) on Twitter


The other day, my friend, Sean Fuller, received this tweet:
Almightygod (@almightygod) is now following your tweets (@sean_fuller) on Twitter.
We had a good laugh about that and, obviously, we assume that it is not THE ALMIGHTY who maintains this account. Still, it is a cool reminder that God offers intimacy more potent than Twitter:
Psalm 139:1-17
 1 O LORD, you have searched me
       and you know me.
 2 You know when I sit and when I rise; 
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
 3 You discern my going out and my lying down; 
you are familiar with all my ways.
 4 Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.
 5 You hem me in—behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me.
 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, 
too lofty for me to attain.
 7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
 8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; 
if I make my bed in the depths, [a] you are there.
 9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
 10 even there your hand will guide me, 
your right hand will hold me fast.
 11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,"
 12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; 
the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
 13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.
 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, 
I know that full well.
 15 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,
 16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
 17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!

Monday, June 21, 2010

The Optimism of Birth


I read, in a church bulletin twenty years ago, a good reminder. In 1809, a war-weary world was anxiously watching the march of Napoleon. Yet, during that same year, William E. Gladstone was born in Liverpool; Alfred Lord Tennyson in Summersby, England; Oliver Wendell Holmes in Boston; Felix Mendelssohn in Hamburg, Germany; and Abraham Lincoln in Hodgenville, Kentucky.

Many in 1809 were focused on darkness and death, yet those babies’ lives’ would produce much light and life. When a woman announces she is going to have a baby, no matter what the circumstances of her world or her life, I am always choosing to view that baby’s birth and life with optimism.