[Oe List ...] UPDATE - Re: Gene W. Marshall's Zoom Memorial Service on Saturday, September 20, 12 Noon Central

[Ann Ensinger Ensinger]

Thank you David and Seth and, of course, Gene. I have always enjoyed this Psalm but now appreciate it more than ever. Ann
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  On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM, Seth Longacre via OE<oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:   That’s an interesting translation. I’ve never read the Psalm in that version. 
But I wanted to say that this Psalm is deeply meaningful to many LGBT+ Christians, particularly —
"You It was who fashioned my inward parts,
You did knit me together in my mother’s womb.

I will praise You, for You fill me with Awe.

Wonderful You are, and wonderful are Your works.

You know me through and through,

my body is no mystery to You,

how I was.secretly kneaded into shape,

and patterned in the deeps of the Earth.



After being told all one’s life that there is something fundamentally “unnatural” or “wrong” with who you are, to read “and wonderful are Your works. . . my body is no mystery to You” is incredibly powerful.
(Or as it is translated in the NRSV —

For it was you who formed my inward parts;

you knit me together in my mother's womb.

14I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

  Seth T. Longacre  Ashland, OR
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On Sep 13, 2025, at 07:38, David Marshall via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:


You It was who fashioned my inward parts,

You did knit me together in my mother’s womb.

I will praise You, for You fill me with Awe.

Wonderful You are, and wonderful are Your works.

You know me through and through,

my body is no mystery to You,

how I was.secretly kneaded into shape,

and patterned in the deeps of the Earth.

You saw my limbs unformed in the womb—

and in Your book they are all recorded—

day by day they were fashioned,

not one of them was late in growing.

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