Eleven Months in Denver: July 2010

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

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Where did it go?

So over the last two months I have been home celebrating my cousin's graduation, I have seen the largest hail ever, I was in a snow storm in June, I spent two days in the hospital, a week recovering from the hospital, fell and scraped my knee (and now feel like a little kid again) and started working full time for my agency.

I spend my time wondering where my time has gone but looking at this list makes me realize how much I have really done. I can't believe this time as a YAV/Dweller is about to come to an end.

(Don't worry my hospital stay was brief, though I did leave without my appendix but my recovery went well and starting Monday I will be able to lift items over 10lbs again.)

Monday, July 12, 2010

Lots to catch up on

So I know its been two months since I have posted anything, its crazy how fast time has gone. I barely remember the month of May, one minute it was Cinco de Mayo an the next I was hanging out with friends for Memorial Day. June was just as bad from being home the first week getting to spend lots of time with my family to spending the last weekend in the hospital recovering from an emergency appendectomy. I have lots more to write and will be posting it tomorrow along with some new pictures.