Eleven Months in Denver: Last Day in Columbus

O LORD, you have searched me and known me.

You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from far away.

You search out my path and my lying down, and 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 upon me.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is so high that I cannot attain it.

Where can I go from your spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence?

If I ascend to heaven, you are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there.

If I take the wings of the morning and settle at the farthest limits of the sea,

even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me fast.

If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light around me become night,"

even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day, for darkness is as light to you.

For it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother's womb.

I 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 made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.

Your eyes beheld my unformed substance. In your book were written all the days that were formed for me, when none of them as yet existed.

How weighty to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!

I try to count them--they are more than the sand; I come to the end--I am still with you.

O that you would kill the wicked, O God, and that the bloodthirsty would depart from me--

those who speak of you maliciously, and lift themselves up against you for evil!

Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?

I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them my enemies.

Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my thoughts.

See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

-Psalm 139

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Last Day in Columbus

So today is the last full day that I will be in Columbus for several months. I went to church this morning to say good-bye to Ann and Amy and then hurried home to help prepare for the large going away party this afternoon.

Yesterday we spent the day cooking, cleaning and I did the last of the laundry and packing for the trip. Today we had family and neighbors and some great friends stop by to help send me off in the only way my family knows how to, with a big bang!

I had a great time playing croquet, learning about crazy people jumping out of hospital windows, how to catch, skin, kill and fillet a fish and just enjoying the company. In some ways I can't believe that I am leaving tomorrow. Once I get out to New York the pictures will commence and hopefully so will the posting of them.

Thank you to everyone for your well wishes and I hope that you will all enjoy reading this blog about my YAV year.