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.
I recently did a prayer dance in Tucson, Arizona. For about four days, we danced towards a tree that represented God and then turned around and danced blessing out to the world. One of the insights that nearly overwhelmed me during the dance was the thought that while the branches of the actual tree I was dancing with only covered about half of the space in the dance area, in reality I am never out from under the presence of God. From that and from David's psalm came this song.
Where Could I Go?
Where could I go and not find Your presence?
To the top of the mountains or under the sea?
Over the ocean or down in my cellar
Your presence is there and you still find me.
If I went out to space, well what would I find?
You're the God of the universe, not just mankind.
If I peer through a microscope isn't it odd?
A world that is tiny, and filled with the glory of God
In the eyes of a stranger or voice of a friend
Your love reaches out to me, love without end.
Every person around me, familiar or strange
Is a picture of God, and I welcome the insight it brings.
Of course there are times when I don't feel Your care.
When I look all around and see dust and despair
But my numbness of spirit or hardness of heart.
Have nothing to do with the fact that You're there.
