Psalm 139:14 (NASB)
I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.
In the last four weeks, I've been faithfully dragging myself to retake my St John's first aid course. Tedious 6 nights of lessons which I had undergone through some 4 years ago, but I was simply too lazy to renew it when it was about to expire. Thus, I paid the price of forking out an additional $30 more, and had to suffer through the entire course again, as opposed to just a shorter refresher course.
Every lesson was a skin crawling experience as the lecturer teaches on the common injuries and how people often die. It doesn't help when he retells passionate true life stories and incidents of deaths, fatal injuries and really nasty situations. What was absolutely horrific was when we had a 45 mins graphic lesson on the various injuries that were captured in photography. Slides after slides of amputated limbs held together by a small thread of muscle, contorted broken bodies, eye pieced with foreign objects.....it was a totally gruesome 45 minutes of my life which I hope to never encounter again, nor hope to treat using my first aid skills.
At every graphic lesson of potential injuries and how to treat them, and me sitting curled in meekness, it dawned upon me that absolutely anything can pierce this tender skin protecting me and wound me in pain. I crossed the road every night of my lesson, walking carefully and overly cautiously, looking out for anything that could fall, trip or afflict my fragile body.
However, amidst all the gory lessons and stories, I learnt many interesting facts like this: Did you know that all the combined blood vessels in our human body when combined together would be able to circle the earth's equator twice? It was a truely astounding trivial that I tried to imagine how many million blood capillaries, veins and arteries we had in our human bodies and how by joining them all together, it would form a length twice the distance of the equator!
With various mind boggling pieces of trivial and the gruesome stories of human fatalities, it struck me how fragile and yet intricately we are made. Without the air that we breathe, the brain slowly dies and suffers from brain damage with every passing minute, eventually dying in 4 minutes. When a friend of mine was pregnant, her husband marvelled and expressed to me the awesomeness of how the entire intricate process of his son's life over the 40 weeks of conceptualisation to birth.
The Psalmist David expresses clearly a praise in due of our creation. As we stop our busy, competitive days and constant complains of why the world is not revolving around us, and choose instead to slowly take in every aspect of our being, we'll see that we are truely wonderfully and fearfully made. Even with our pimples, scars, scabs and whatever physical deformaties which we are never pleased with. The very fact that we breathe, think and move speaks of a complexity mankind's smartest has not been able to imitate through artificial intelligence.
We are truely more than we imagine. How often is it that we choose to live selfish lives and have moments of doom and gloom. On a day like this as I inspect the dexterity of my typing fingers and seemless thinking-typing capabilities, my soul knows it well that I am truely made by a creator God and I give thanks to him for I am wonderfully made.
May this verse reverberate in your spirit and remind you that God made you the way you are, and you are complete in Him. Today may you choose to bless Him out-loud "wonderful are Your works and my soul knows it well."
Blessings,
M.
12 October 2006
I am Creation
Psalm 139:14 (NASB)
I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.
In the last four weeks, I've been faithfully dragging myself to retake my St John's first aid course. Tedious 6 nights of lessons which I had undergone through some 4 years ago, but I was simply too lazy to renew it when it was about to expire. Thus, I paid the price of forking out an additional $30 more, and had to suffer through the entire course again, as opposed to just a shorter refresher course.
Every lesson was a skin crawling experience as the lecturer teaches on the common injuries and how people often die. It doesn't help when he retells passionate true life stories and incidents of deaths, fatal injuries and really nasty situations. What was absolutely horrific was when we had a 45 mins graphic lesson on the various injuries that were captured in photography. Slides after slides of amputated limbs held together by a small thread of muscle, contorted broken bodies, eye pieced with foreign objects.....it was a totally gruesome 45 minutes of my life which I hope to never encounter again, nor hope to treat using my first aid skills.
At every graphic lesson of potential injuries and how to treat them, and me sitting curled in meekness, it dawned upon me that absolutely anything can pierce this tender skin protecting me and wound me in pain. I crossed the road every night of my lesson, walking carefully and overly cautiously, looking out for anything that could fall, trip or afflict my fragile body.
However, amidst all the gory lessons and stories, I learnt many interesting facts like this: Did you know that all the combined blood vessels in our human body when combined together would be able to circle the earth's equator twice? It was a truely astounding trivial that I tried to imagine how many million blood capillaries, veins and arteries we had in our human bodies and how by joining them all together, it would form a length twice the distance of the equator!
With various mind boggling pieces of trivial and the gruesome stories of human fatalities, it struck me how fragile and yet intricately we are made. Without the air that we breathe, the brain slowly dies and suffers from brain damage with every passing minute, eventually dying in 4 minutes. When a friend of mine was pregnant, her husband marvelled and expressed to me the awesomeness of how the entire intricate process of his son's life over the 40 weeks of conceptualisation to birth.
The Psalmist David expresses clearly a praise in due of our creation. As we stop our busy, competitive days and constant complains of why the world is not revolving around us, and choose instead to slowly take in every aspect of our being, we'll see that we are truely wonderfully and fearfully made. Even with our pimples, scars, scabs and whatever physical deformaties which we are never pleased with. The very fact that we breathe, think and move speaks of a complexity mankind's smartest has not been able to imitate through artificial intelligence.
We are truely more than we imagine. How often is it that we choose to live selfish lives and have moments of doom and gloom. On a day like this as I inspect the dexterity of my typing fingers and seemless thinking-typing capabilities, my soul knows it well that I am truely made by a creator God and I give thanks to him for I am wonderfully made.
May this verse reverberate in your spirit and remind you that God made you the way you are, and you are complete in Him. Today may you choose to bless Him out-loud "wonderful are Your works and my soul knows it well."
Blessings,
M.
I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.
In the last four weeks, I've been faithfully dragging myself to retake my St John's first aid course. Tedious 6 nights of lessons which I had undergone through some 4 years ago, but I was simply too lazy to renew it when it was about to expire. Thus, I paid the price of forking out an additional $30 more, and had to suffer through the entire course again, as opposed to just a shorter refresher course.
Every lesson was a skin crawling experience as the lecturer teaches on the common injuries and how people often die. It doesn't help when he retells passionate true life stories and incidents of deaths, fatal injuries and really nasty situations. What was absolutely horrific was when we had a 45 mins graphic lesson on the various injuries that were captured in photography. Slides after slides of amputated limbs held together by a small thread of muscle, contorted broken bodies, eye pieced with foreign objects.....it was a totally gruesome 45 minutes of my life which I hope to never encounter again, nor hope to treat using my first aid skills.
At every graphic lesson of potential injuries and how to treat them, and me sitting curled in meekness, it dawned upon me that absolutely anything can pierce this tender skin protecting me and wound me in pain. I crossed the road every night of my lesson, walking carefully and overly cautiously, looking out for anything that could fall, trip or afflict my fragile body.
However, amidst all the gory lessons and stories, I learnt many interesting facts like this: Did you know that all the combined blood vessels in our human body when combined together would be able to circle the earth's equator twice? It was a truely astounding trivial that I tried to imagine how many million blood capillaries, veins and arteries we had in our human bodies and how by joining them all together, it would form a length twice the distance of the equator!
With various mind boggling pieces of trivial and the gruesome stories of human fatalities, it struck me how fragile and yet intricately we are made. Without the air that we breathe, the brain slowly dies and suffers from brain damage with every passing minute, eventually dying in 4 minutes. When a friend of mine was pregnant, her husband marvelled and expressed to me the awesomeness of how the entire intricate process of his son's life over the 40 weeks of conceptualisation to birth.
The Psalmist David expresses clearly a praise in due of our creation. As we stop our busy, competitive days and constant complains of why the world is not revolving around us, and choose instead to slowly take in every aspect of our being, we'll see that we are truely wonderfully and fearfully made. Even with our pimples, scars, scabs and whatever physical deformaties which we are never pleased with. The very fact that we breathe, think and move speaks of a complexity mankind's smartest has not been able to imitate through artificial intelligence.
We are truely more than we imagine. How often is it that we choose to live selfish lives and have moments of doom and gloom. On a day like this as I inspect the dexterity of my typing fingers and seemless thinking-typing capabilities, my soul knows it well that I am truely made by a creator God and I give thanks to him for I am wonderfully made.
May this verse reverberate in your spirit and remind you that God made you the way you are, and you are complete in Him. Today may you choose to bless Him out-loud "wonderful are Your works and my soul knows it well."
Blessings,
M.
