Proper 11
Worship
Aids To The Psalms
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 behold 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.
Alternate Image
The Singer is taking a tour of a hospital. In one examining room a doctor is examining a patient with a stethoscope, listening to the heartbeat, breathing, the internal sounds of the living body. In an x-ray room, technicians are taking pictures of what is inside the body. In a lab, other technicians are using electron microscopes to view blood samples and body tissue, able to see the minute aspects of life. In the pediatrics wing doctors use an ultrasound machine to view an unborn baby moving in her mother's womb. In a telecommunications section the Singer sees doctors inputting data into a computer linked with other computers throughout the world and coming up with a diagnosis for a patient whose illness has eluded them. In yet another room the Singer sees a cat-scan machine electronically dissecting a body, revealing the inner make-up of a human brain. Amazing technology. Yet more amazing to the Singer is the object of this technology, the human body. It is more complicated, more complex, a veritable marvel. Out of the dust, the atoms, molecules and subparticles of the universe, God formed a most incredible invention, a human being.
Reflection
The scientific advances in technology and understanding in our time fairly boggles the mind. We have the ability to walk on the moon, travel to nearby planets, view distant universes, send realms of information from one computer to another in the blink of an eye. All of this is very impressive. But it all pales to insignificance when we consider what God has done. In a very real sense, we human beings do not create anything, we merely reshuffle the orderly deck God has given us and discover things that are new to us. It is God who created that order for us to examine. It is God who has knit the human body and tile entire universe together with pattern, sense and purpose. Our highest intellectual and spiritual endeavor is to try to understand what we can of God's plan.
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 behold 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.
Alternate Image
The Singer is taking a tour of a hospital. In one examining room a doctor is examining a patient with a stethoscope, listening to the heartbeat, breathing, the internal sounds of the living body. In an x-ray room, technicians are taking pictures of what is inside the body. In a lab, other technicians are using electron microscopes to view blood samples and body tissue, able to see the minute aspects of life. In the pediatrics wing doctors use an ultrasound machine to view an unborn baby moving in her mother's womb. In a telecommunications section the Singer sees doctors inputting data into a computer linked with other computers throughout the world and coming up with a diagnosis for a patient whose illness has eluded them. In yet another room the Singer sees a cat-scan machine electronically dissecting a body, revealing the inner make-up of a human brain. Amazing technology. Yet more amazing to the Singer is the object of this technology, the human body. It is more complicated, more complex, a veritable marvel. Out of the dust, the atoms, molecules and subparticles of the universe, God formed a most incredible invention, a human being.
Reflection
The scientific advances in technology and understanding in our time fairly boggles the mind. We have the ability to walk on the moon, travel to nearby planets, view distant universes, send realms of information from one computer to another in the blink of an eye. All of this is very impressive. But it all pales to insignificance when we consider what God has done. In a very real sense, we human beings do not create anything, we merely reshuffle the orderly deck God has given us and discover things that are new to us. It is God who created that order for us to examine. It is God who has knit the human body and tile entire universe together with pattern, sense and purpose. Our highest intellectual and spiritual endeavor is to try to understand what we can of God's plan.
