Beside this passage in my Bible, I wrote a date: 4/29/2007.  This was two days after I buried my cousin after he had died from very unnatural circumstances.  I was questioning everything, and my life seemed so unstable.  I was sitting in church, half-heartedly listening, when the preacher directed us to open to this passage.  Still today, when it seems like I am going through a faith crisis, I open to this passage, and let it affect my thinking, my morale, and my life for the better.

“O God, you are my God,
earnestly I seek you;
my soul thirsts for you,
my body longs for you,
in a dry and weary land
where there is no water.

I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands.  My soul will be satisfied as with the richest of foods; with singing lips my mouth will praise you. On my bed I remember you; I think of you through the watches of the night.  Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings. My soul clings to you; your right hand upholds me. They who seek my life will be destroyed; they will go down to the depths of the earth. They will be given over to the sword and become food for jackals. But the king will rejoice in God; all who swear by God’s name will praise him, while the mouths of liars will be silenced.”

Psalm 63

Keep truckin’,