Thy hands have made me and fashioned me. ~ Psalm 119:73a

    Photograph of Ben by D. Golightly

Psalm 139:1-18

O Lord, You have searched me and known me. 

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

You understand my thoughts from afar. 

You scrutinize my path and my lying down,

And are intimately acquainted with all my ways. 

Even before there is a word on my tongue, 

Behold, O Lord, You know it all. 

You have enclosed me behind and before

And laid Your hand upon me. 

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;

It is too high, I cannot attain to 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 hell, behold, You are there.

If I take the wings of the dawn, 

If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea, 

Even there Your hand will lead me, 

And Your right hand will lay hold of me. 

If I say surely the darkness will cover me; 

even the night shall be light about me.

For the darkness hides me not from You;
 but the night shines as the day:
the darkness and the light are both alike to You.

For you have possessed my reins;You

covered me in my mother's whom. I will praise You

for I am fearfully and wonderfully made

marvelous are they works; and them my soul knows
 are true. My substance was not hid from You, 

when I was made in secret, and curiously made 

in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes seen

my substance; yet being imperfect;

and in  Your book all my members were 

written, which incontinuance were fashioned, 

when yet there were none of them. 

How precious also are Your thoughts

unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

If I should count them they are more than the sand:

when I awake, I am still with You.

Psalm 139: 1-18