Disability Awareness for All

4. Being Valued

1 You have searched me, Lord, 
   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, Lord, know it completely.

5 You hem me in behind and before
   and you lay 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, 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.