From dawn to dusk... Psalm 139

One of my favorite psalms!  I always am thrilled to see Psalm 139!  These photos starting with the beautiful sunrise to the other sights of the day... It just seems to fit!

Psalm 139

O Lord, you have searched me and known me.

You know when I sit down  and when I rise up;

you discern my thoughts from far away.

You search out my path and my lying down,

are acquainted with all my ways.

Even before a word is on my tongue,

O Lord, you know it completely.

You hem me in, behind and before,

and lay your hand upon me.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;

it is to high that I cannot attain it.

Where can I go from your spirit?

Or where can I flee from your presence?

If I ascend to heaven, you are there;

if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there.

If I take the wings of the morning

and settle at the farthest limits of the sea,

even there your hand shall lead me,

 and your right hand shall lead me,

and your right hand shall hold me fast.

If I say,'Surely the darkness shall cover me,

and the light around me become night,'

even the darkness is not dark to you;

the night is as bright as the day,

for darkness is as light to you.

For it was you who formed my inward parts;

you knit me together in my mother's womb.

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Wonderful are your works;

that I know very well.

My frame was not hidden from you,

when I was being made in secret,

inticately woven in the depths of the earth.

Your eyes beheld my unformed substance.

In your book were written all the days that were formed for me,

when none of them as yet existed.

How weighty to me are your thoughts, O God!

How vast is the sum of them!

I try to count them - they are more than the sand;

I come to the end - I am still with you..."

From the Catholic Youth Bible - The Sacredness of Life

"Psalm 139 speaks poetically of God's intimate care for each of us, long before we were even formed.  It is perhaps the most powerful argument against abortion in the entire Bible.  Who can deny that God gave us life long before we actually saw the light of day?  How can we deny that every unborn child is fashioned by the hand of God?  It is easy to get caught up in arguments about individual rights and scientific terminology.  But this is not about science or government or even when life begins.  It is about poetry and love and the faith that God has knit each of us together in our mother's womb.  God has great plans for each of us, whether we have been born, are in the womb, or have not yet even been thought of.  God knows and loves us, and has through all eternity.  What else is there to say?"