Thank you David and Seth and, of course, Gene. I have always enjoyed this Psalm but now appreciate it more than ever. Ann<div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1757816749260"><br><div id="ymail_android_signature"><a id="ymail_android_signature_link" href="https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct&c=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&af_wl=ym&af_sub1=Internal&af_sub2=Global_YGrowth&af_sub3=EmailSignature">Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android</a></div> <br> <blockquote style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;"> <div style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif; color:#6D00F6;"> <div>On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM, Seth Longacre via OE</div><div><oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:</div> </div> <div style="padding: 10px 0 0 20px; margin: 10px 0 0 0; border-left: 1px solid #6D00F6;"> <div id="yiv8276729245"><div>That’s an interesting translation. I’ve never read the Psalm in that version. <div><br clear="none"></div><div>But I wanted to say that this Psalm is deeply meaningful to many LGBT+ Christians, particularly —</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>"<b>You It was who fashioned my inward parts,</b><p><b>You did knit me together in my mother’s womb.</b></p><p><b>I will praise You, for You fill me with Awe.</b></p><p><b>Wonderful You are, and wonderful are Your works.</b></p><p><b>You know me through and through,</b></p><p><b>my body is no mystery to You,</b></p><p><b>how I was.secretly kneaded into shape,</b></p><p><b>and patterned in the deeps of the Earth.</b></p><p><br clear="none"></p><div>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.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>(Or as it is translated in the NRSV —</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><p style="margin-top:0px;color:rgb(30, 30, 30);font-family:Rustica, Verdana, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:20px;" class="yiv8276729245q1"><span style="cursor:pointer;" class="yiv8276729245verse-span">For it was you who formed my inward parts;</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;color:rgb(30, 30, 30);font-family:Rustica, Verdana, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:20px;" class="yiv8276729245q2"><span style="cursor:pointer;" class="yiv8276729245verse-span">you knit me together in my mother's womb.</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;color:rgb(30, 30, 30);font-family:Rustica, Verdana, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:20px;" class="yiv8276729245q1"><span style="cursor:pointer;" class="yiv8276729245verse-span"><span style="font-size:0.75em;margin-right:4px;margin-left:4px;line-height:0;vertical-align:super;" class="yiv8276729245v">14</span></span><span style="cursor:pointer;" class="yiv8276729245verse-span">I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.</span></p></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><div>
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<div><br clear="none"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Sep 13, 2025, at 07:38, David Marshall via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:</div><div id="yiv8276729245yqtfd12354" class="yiv8276729245yqt8457344794"><br clear="none" class="yiv8276729245Apple-interchange-newline"><div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div id="yiv8276729245yqtfd85286" class="yiv8276729245yqt8457344794"><div><p style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;"><b>You It was who fashioned my inward parts,</b></p><p style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;"><b>You did knit me together in my mother’s womb.</b></p><p style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;"><b>I will praise You, for You fill me with Awe.</b></p><p style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;"><b>Wonderful You are, and wonderful are Your works.</b></p><p style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;"><b>You know me through and through,</b></p><p style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;"><b>my body is no mystery to You,</b></p><p style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;"><b>how I was.secretly kneaded into shape,</b></p><p style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;"><b>and patterned in the deeps of the Earth.</b></p><p style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;"><b>You saw my limbs unformed in the womb—</b></p><p style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;"><b>and in Your book they are all recorded—</b></p><p style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;"><b>day by day they were fashioned,</b></p><p style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;"><b>not one of them was late in growing.</b></p><br clear="none"></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>OE mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net" href="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net">OE@lists.wedgeblade.net</a><br><a href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net</a><br> </div> </blockquote></div>