Today’s my birthday. This evening we’ll celebrate with one of my favorite meals—Springfield Style Cashew Chicken—followed by a German Chocolate cake.

I didn’t plan to mention my birthday until I read David’s prayer early this morning:

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…My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place…all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

Knit together all those years ago and still going strong (or at least, still going). Even now I’m enjoying the days appointed to me, written in the vast books of the Lord. I studied biology as an undergrad and it continues to amaze me how few things perform for years and years as well as the human body. Certainly we are magnificently created.

Not only are our bodies formed by the hands of the Lord, our souls rest in him as well. David wrote, Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? The truth remains that wherever I go, his right hand will hold me fast.

Wonderful promises to remember on a birthday, and to hold close all the other days of the year.

Psalm 139 in reading the Bible in 2023