Psalm 19:1

"The heavens are telling of the glory of God; And their expanse is declaring the work of His hands."

So I'm behind in my posting again, but that's okay. This week (February 7th through the 13th) was my verse and the person I decided to pray for was myself. Now I know this sounds weird at first. As I was filling out my prayer planner for the year I had missed a week. I was thinking of just picking a random person for that but the more I thought about it the more I realized I should put myself in that spot. 

The main reason I went with this decision was because asking for prayers for myself was always a struggle for me. One of my friends pointed this out to me when they asked how they can pray for me. I started listing off things for other people and they stopped me and said; "no, how can I pray for YOU?" I didn't really know what to say at that. Thinking back on that it occured to me that I am important too and I need to be sure I am praying for myself as well as others. 

My verse this week was my personal favorite verse, Psalm 19:1. As many of you know I am a big space nerd and often geek out about science stuff. This verse is about acknowledging how mind blowingly huge and beautiful the universe is and how small we are in comparison. I love watching sunsets and sunrises and star gazing and just standing in awe of it. I remember the first time I looked at the moon through a telescope and I was just left breathless; same when I saw the milky way for the first time, I just couldn't stop looking. To think that a God who created something so huge and beautiful and amazing also created lil' old me is a hard for my brain to grasp. 

We often say this world is a crazy place but the reality is it's not really a crazy place. We are the ones who make it crazy. Most of the stresses we deal with are created by ourselves, It's important to step back and stop living by issues we created, stop living by fear, and start living our lives.