When I consider the short span of my life...

He nails my experience too. I’m thankful to know a God who orders my steps and knew me in my mother’s womb. Without confidence in Him, terror is the only appropriate emotion.

“When I consider the short span of my life absorbed into the preceding and subsequent eternity...I am terrified, and surprised to find myself here rather than there, for there is no reason why it should be here rather than there, why now rather than then. Who put me here? On whose orders and on whose decision have this place and this time been allotted to me?” - Blaise Pascal, Pensèes, 102.