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b'Brian and Fr. Shay experience this passage in two different ways \\u2014 and that\\u2019s ok! For some, this passage is comforting and for others this is creepy and overbearing. It\\u2019s a passage that\\u2019s been used against queer and trans people but also maybe has a poetic message that can connect you with King David and resonate with you.\\nRead the transcript (PDF)\\nPsalm 139 1-6; 13-18\\nLord, you have examined me.\\n\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0You know me.\\nYou know when I sit down and when I stand up.\\n\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0Even from far away, you comprehend my plans.\\nYou study my traveling and resting.\\n\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0You are thoroughly familiar with all my ways.\\nThere isn\\u2019t a word on my tongue,\\xa0Lord,\\n\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0that you don\\u2019t already know completely.\\nYou surround me\\u2014front and back.\\n\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0You put your hand on me.\\nThat kind of knowledge is too much for me;\\n\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0it\\u2019s so high above me that I can\\u2019t fathom it.\\nYou are the one who created my innermost parts;\\n\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0you knit me together while I was still in my mother\\u2019s womb.\\nI give thanks to you that I was marvelously set apart.\\n\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0Your works are wonderful\\u2014I know that very well.\\nMy bones weren\\u2019t hidden from you\\n\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0when I was being put together in a secret place,\\n\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0when I was being woven together in the deep parts of the earth.\\nYour eyes saw my embryo,\\n\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0and on your scroll every day was written that was being formed for me,\\n\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0before any one of them had yet happened.\\nGod, your plans are incomprehensible to me!\\n\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0Their total number is countless!\\nIf I tried to count them\\u2014they outnumber grains of sand!\\n\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0If I came to the very end\\u2014I\\u2019d still be with you.\\nPhoto by Kaptain Kobold\\nThe post You knit me together \\u2013 Psalm 139 appeared first on Queer Theology.'