Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Allison. Today's scripture offers us a wiser way of being human as we step into the day.

Have you ever stood under a wide open sky and felt both small and also strangely held? Maybe you've

looked up at the stars or stood near the ocean or looked out

across the mountains and something in you got quiet. For a moment, the swirl of responsibilities,

anxieties, and demands loosened its grip. And some part of you remembers, I am not the center of everything.

And somehow that doesn't make you feel insignificant.

It makes you feel relieved.

Today's psalm meets us in that place of wonder.

As you hear this passage today, I invite you to notice what happens inside of you,

not just what you think, but what your body feels as you remember that in the grand

scheme of things you are tiny and yet also deeply seen.

Today's scripture is Psalm 8, 1 through 9. Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth.

You have set your glory in the heavens. Through the praise of children and infants, you have

established a stronghold against your enemies to silence the foe and the Avenger.

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you have set in place,

what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?

You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them

with glory and honor you made them rulers over the works of your hands you put everything under their feet

all flocks and herds and the animals of the wild the birds in the sky and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.

Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth.

Psychologists sometimes talk about the experience of awe, that feeling we have when we encounter something vast, beautiful, mysterious, or beyond our

ability to fully comprehend.

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