Listening for May 5, 2008: An Intimate Dialogue: Inside & Out (last in this series) [2007-05-05]

If what illustrates our relationship with God is skipping stones across the surface of a pond, then what illustrates His relationship with us is a huge boulder cannon-balling straight down through the surface, deeper, ever deeper, until it snuggles with all its weight into the soft mud and sand of the bottom.

David's Psalm 139 describes the intimacy with which the Lord God knows each one of those who call on His name. It describes a level of knowledge impossible for humans--defying the limits of matter, time, and space. It is at once supernaturally invasive, and warmly reassuring. It is familial. It is personal.

It is holy.