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Wonderfully Created

from Inside Things by Frances Drost

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One Friday afternoon I was getting ready to leave for a weekend booking that was a bit scary for me.  A group of teenage girls was going to have a weekend slumber party.  Somehow I let the person planning the weekend talk me into being the entertainment and spiritual guru for two days.

I’m one of those morning people that night owls despise.  I'm an early bird! The thought of staying up into the night with a wild bunch of girls had me a bit nervous.  How many caffeine pills can you take at one time?

The theme for the weekend was “I am fearfully and wonderfully made”.  I was putting the finishing touches on my notes to share with the girls from Psalm 139 when a melody began to play unrestrained in my head.  I remember thinking to myself NOT NOW as if the melody would hear me and go away.  I didn’t have time to write a song to go with the weekend though that seemed like a wondrous idea.

I got out my scratchpad and began writing down a few lyrics. (Never argue with an idea). I decided that trying to finish the song would be one of our exercises as a group sometime Saturday when we were brain dead after very little sleep.  It was a great exercise considering the fact that I don’t think many of them if any of them had ever written a song before.

Years later, when the song idea made the final list for the CD and I completed the lyrics, I was up early the first day of recording trying to get not only my voice warmed up, but my heart too.  What better way to prepare for recording this song than to study Psalm 139 again to refresh my memory.  Right?

I wasn’t prepared for what happened next.  When I got to verse 14 where David says “Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!  Your workmanship is marvelous—and how well I know it.”  (NLT) I could sense that familiar voice I’ve come to love and sometimes run from.  It was the voice of the Holy Spirit.  I felt Him asking me to speak those words out loud as if to affirm that I too was grateful that He made me and not only wonderfully, but complex.

This might not seem like such a big thing to you, but it was for me.  I had been struggling for years with self-esteem issues and He had already been putting His finger on this area of my life.  To read these words in my mind was one thing, but I realized when I went to speak them out loud, I couldn’t do it because I didn’t feel like they were true.  

I knew that He only points out dark areas in our lives, so He can bring light.  Though I struggled to obey, I eventually spoke the words out loud that morning.  For the next year, I began to speak these words out loud whenever I began to feel that black cloud of low self-esteem try to suffocate my heart.  I would say “thank you for making me so wonderful” out loud.  As I began to speak these words, over time, I began to notice that the cloud was coming around less often.  I’m thankful for mostly sunny skies these days.

Psalm 139:14 “Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!  Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.” (NLT)

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Wonderfully Created
By Frances Drost

I am fearfully and wonderfully created
Every part of me was carefully designed with love
In my mother’s womb you knit me all together
I was skillfully fashioned by You

Many are your thoughts of me
Wonderful your love to me, Lord

I am fearfully and wonderfully created
From what you see to who I really am inside
And no matter where I think I might try going
You’re already there waiting for me

I am fearfully and wonderfully created
And You love me Lord, as if I were Your only child
In the womb of time You’re holding me securely
From the cradle to the grip of the grave

I am fearfully and wonderfully created
You know everything there ever is to know of me 
Like an open book You read across the pages
Won’t You finish what You started in me

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from Inside Things, released June 1, 2008

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Frances Drost is a singer/songwriter who gives voice to our innermost thoughts and feelings through lyrics and melodies. She lives life and then writes about it so others can join in the journey.

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