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b'I rose from my bed, thoughts swirling like tornado winds. \\u201cDoes anyone\\nreally know me? What is the purpose of my life?\\u201d Resolution filled my veins\\nlike urgent flames. Today I would search and seek until I found the answers\\nI needed. \\n.\\nAs I packed a sack of food for my journey, I had the sensation that Someone\\nwas watching me. This was nothing new, for I had felt this watchfulness my\\nwhole life, pushing it from my consciousness as one would shoo a pesky fly.\\nBut today, I allowed the sense to linger. \\u201cWhat if? What if there was\\nSomeone who saw my every movement, knew when I left my home, had an\\nintimate knowledge of every activity\\u2014every thought.\\u201d\\n.\\nThe sun was just breaking over the horizon, golden light cascading through\\nthe fields. I chose to journey toward the sea; the vastness of its waters\\ncalled to me. This Presence, this Someone, surely had no hold on me where\\nthe endless miles of ocean roared.\\n.\\nTraveling over the great sea in my small vessel, I was amazed to feel the\\nPresence with me still. \\u201cSurely the darkness will hide me,\\u201d I reasoned as\\nthe velvet night fell, ocean spray misting my hair. No, hours into my\\nvoyage, Someone was still with me.\\n.\\nAmid the pre-dawn light, a small island winked in the distance. I felt\\nweary from my journey and decided to rest on the shore. As my bare feet\\ndragged over the grains of sand, a sudden thought sprang up in my\\nmind: \\u201cWhat if the Presence thought of me every day, hour, minute\\u2026 What\\nif these thoughts amounted to more than all these grains of sand?\\u201d A gurgle\\nof a laugh welled up in my throat. It was almost too wonderful to\\ncontemplate\\u2014perhaps I was dehydrated. \\u2022 Savannah Coleman\\n.\\n\\u2022 Like the character in today\\u2019s story, do you ever wonder if there is more\\nto life? Wonder what is the purpose of your existence?\\n.\\n\\u2022 In Psalm 139, David wrote about how God has an intimate knowledge of us.\\nThe God who made the universe knows when we wake, where we go throughout\\nthe day, and every thought that enters our minds. How does the knowledge\\nthat God knows everything about you make you feel?\\n.\\n\\u201cAm I only a God nearby,\\u201d declares the Lord, \\u201cand not a God far away? Who\\ncan hide in secret places so that I cannot see them?\\u2026 Do not I fill\\nheaven and earth?\\u201d Jeremiah 23:23-24 (NIV)\\n\\xa0\\nRead Verses:\\nPs.139.1-Ps.139.18|Jer.23.23-Jer.23.24'