...beloved, gorgeous lines of Psalm 139, with a life that does not bear out its comforting lines: "You formed my inward parts, you knit me together in my...praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made." Did God, she had to ask, preordain her treacherously weakened bones? Did God design and switch on the...

...hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me — For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, while I was...

...it is inescapably personal. Six times in the first six verses the psalmist addresses God as "You." "It was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother's womb" (v. 13). As the thoroughly known creation of God, humans have both an identity and a value that endure....

...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...inward parts; you knit me together in my mother's womb. Wonderful are your works; that I know very well. Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know...

...knowledge. . . . How does it feel to be a completely open book to him . . . ? (Read Psalm 139:13-18.) For it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit...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...