365 Project Day 168: Woven

Canon 5D Mark ll, 50 1.2L, 1.2 aperture, 1/640 shutter ISO 50

I pray, and as I am praying, I am working the threads of my heart into words that He will hear, and answer.  I pray about baby Phoenix and ask God to continue the weaving, the completing. I pray about the mission trip to Guatemala next week, when two of my three will fly away on a plane to a foreign land. I pray for the tying together of their lives, the knotting up of the net that will hold them and keep them held in His sovereign grasp. I ask the I Am to reach into my tomorrow, and sew up the places that need patching, covering, closing.

I feel held in this great weaving process, in which I participate, but do not control. He is God and he is good. He has invited me to ask, to bring my efforts, even my thread bare places to him. He will do the finishing. The knitting and knotting. The wonderful works and the comforting. He will go before me and come behind me. He closes me in with himself. I am kept safe and carried as the light shines through. Wonderfully woven and spun.

Psalm 139: 1-18

“You have searched me, LORD,
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, LORD, know it completely.
You hem me in behind and before,
and you lay 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, 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.”