today

i've been memorizing a psalm as an act of discipline. It is hard and good and I only have 5 verses memorized so far. But today as I realized in some ways i have been regarded as second string as a writer it has been helpful.


"You search me O Lord and you know me. You know what I sit, and when I rise. You percieve my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my laying down. You are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, o Lord. You hem me in behind and before. You have laid your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain."

Memorizing makes the weight of certain words more clear. The creator of the universe has laid his hand upon me. He knows, knows, me, discerns, searches, hems, percieves, me. I wonder what all the different shade of these verbs are in Hebrew.