Where can I go from your spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there. If I take the wings of the morning and settle at the farthest limits of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me fast. If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light around me become night," even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day, for darkness is as light to you. (Psalm 139:7-12 NRSV)


Sometimes we don't want God to be near -- Adam and Eve tried to hide after eating that dratted apple; Jonah tried to run away when God said 'Go to Ninevah."  Sometimes we do want God but we feel like God is nowhere near us and call out like the psalm writer or Job 'where is God?'  At times like that we need the reminder from the Psalmist that we can't get away from God.  When we need God it's nice to know that God is already with us, like the air around us, whether we notice or not.  And when we want to run away or hide what we're doing from God, maybe it's good to be reminded that God is with us then as well. 

Blessings!
Marilyn