When our son, David, was a kid, the beauty of Psalm 8 struck him and he asked some pretty significant questions about the truths it contains. "How could God have created everything around us?" "If we can see the moon and the stars, why can't we see heaven?" "If God could make so many big things, why did He make little things like us?"
As a parent I was challenged to condense the awesomeness of that psalm into words that could be understood by a child and I continue to be awed by the immense beauty of those words of the David of the Old Testament. Still today as I read them I try to digest them in a personal way:
"When I (Barb) look at Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and stars which You have set in place, what is man (what am I) that You are mindful of him (me), the son (daughter), that You care for him (me)?"-Psalm 8:3,4.
My God, in the midst of His indescribable universe, cares for me, Barb. He knows my needs at this very moment and will never let me fall. How significant is that!
And as if I needed more assurance of this truth, I open my Valley of Vision and read, "...Thy presence fills immensity, yet Thou hast of Thy pleasure created life and communicated happiness; Thou hast made me what I am and given me what I have; In Thee I live and move and have my being..."- The Valley of Vision.
Today I will claim the final words of that prayer:
"Impress me with a sense of Thy omnipresence, that Thou art my path, my ways, my lying down, my end."-The Valley of Vision.
On the health front:
Yesterday I celebrated the arrival of my siblings from Seattle, Tucson and Hawi, Hawaii, so while I have them here I have decided that if there are any side effects from my treatment they (the side effects, not the siblings) will be ignored!
And another cause for celebration...I am officially one treatment over the half way mark for this phase of treating the ugly enemy.
Those Chemo Marines are doing their job!
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