Day 2

Recently, I was at a Confirmation Retreat and we shared Psalm 139 first in the darkness and then with candlelight. We were to reflect on how it would be to live in darkness and then how God brings light into our lives. This reminded me of the reading from Day 2.

If you have time think about the question Warren asks on page 26 "I know that God uniquely created me. What areas of my personality, background, and physical appearance am I struggling to accept?"

Think about this question in the darkness (give those thoughts over to God) and then light a candle and read Psalm 139 and thank God for creating you!

Psalm 139 Vs. 1-14
O LORD, you have searched me 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 know it completely, O LORD. You hem me in—behind and before; you have laid 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.