Friday, December 02, 2005
knock knock...
been a crazy week... with all the hectic work n falling ill with mild flu n all... den got news of sam tan's appendix prb n anthony's kids' HFMD... all dat can go wrong, seemed to b gg wrong... wasnt exactly downcast but feeling v worn out...
but as i watched the 3D ultrasound scan recording done in the clinic earlier today. i felt v touched by the works of God's hands... saw pictures of the baby's face at 26 weeks... it's limbs all formed... it's movement... sucking its thumb... it seems like a common sight... but it sure feels different when you see it while it's still within the safe confines of a mother's womb... feels so warm n beautiful...
reminds me of Psalm 139...
1 O LORD, you have searched me and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise;you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.
5 You hem me in—behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, [
a] you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,"
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day,for darkness is as light to you.
13 For you created my inmost being;you knit me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
15 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,
16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to [
b] me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you.
19 If only you would slay the wicked, O God! Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
20 They speak of you with evil intent;your adversaries misuse your name.
21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD, and abhor those who rise up against you?
22 I have nothing but hatred for them;I count them my enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
lovely Psalm... especially since God's knitting us in our mothers' wombs is visible to me almost everyday at work... when naked human eye can't even see the embryos, God's hand is already at work in us... den the heart starts beating so strongly... n the limbs start to form...
when u know how small the volume of the womb (40-60ml) actually is... n how it stretches jux to contain a precious new life or even lives (that can weight more den 3kg) ... His creations r truly wonderful... i dun think any mortal inventor could b more thotful den our divine creator.
i'm amazed n convinced dat we r not mere organisms dat evolved from single-cell organisms or from a huge chemical reaction dat triggered off life. if life could occur so coincidentally, we would b seeing new lifeforms so often... do we?
there must b an Almighty being who has crafted us out of His hands. And He's a mind so beautiful dat even the visible things He creates never fail to impress or amaze us every single day. I'm in awe. truly am. and even more so, touched that He loves His creation so much, HE came in flesh to redeem our wretched souls.
12:07 AM
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