"I can never escape from Your Spirit!

I can never get away from Your presence!

If I go up to heaven, You are there. 

If I go down to the grave, You are there. 

If I ride the wings of the morning, 

if I dwell by the farthest oceans,

even there Your hand will guide me,

and Your strength will support me.

I could ask the darkness to hide me

and the light around me to become night - 

but even in darkness I cannot hide form You.

To You, the night shines as bright as day.

Darkness and light are the same to You."

-Ps. 139:7-12

This is probably the most comforting thing I know of.. that even if I try, I can't escape God.

I seem to be prone to taking on too much.  I try to please everyone, take care of everyone, and I try to convince myself that failure, on my part, is unacceptable. 

But God's Spirit is with me... always.  I don't have to be everywhere.  I don't have to do everything.  God's Spirit is taking care of me.  And when I am afraid, when I'm overwhelmed, when I'm alone, when I'm anxious, God is here.  And He is not frightened by my dark.  In fact, my dark, deep brokenness shine  bright... because, like I said, God is there.  In my brokenness, in my weakness, in my attempts and failures to fix the world, God is there.