O God, You Search Me and You Know Me

O God, you search me and you know me.

All my thoughts lie open to your gaze.

When I walk or lie down you are before me:

Ever the maker and keeper of my days.

You know my resting and my rising.

You discern my purpose from afar.

And with love everlasting you besiege me:

In ev’ry moment of life and death, you are.

Before a word is on my tongue, Lord,

You have known its meaning through and through.

You are with me, beyond my understanding:

God of my present, my past and future, too.

Although your Spirit is upon me,

Still I search for shelter from your light.

There is nowhere on earth I can escape you:

Even the darkness is radiant in your sight.

For you created me and shaped me,

Gave me life within my mother’s womb.

For the wonder of who I am, I praise you:

Safe in your hands, all creation is made new.