Psalm 139: The Realm Where Darkness and Light Unite

Verse 18: 

"If I were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand— when I awake, I am still with you."

This Psalm paradoxically declares the impossibility of any attempt to escape God. The poet encounters God in heaven, in the depths of the earth, and at the ends of the sea. There, the poet realizes that the darkness and light they know are not God's worst and best. The poet experienced a state where darkness is not darkness, and light is not light, a state where darkness and light are one. The beginning and the end, the worst and the best, were not concepts belonging to God, but were the poet's limitations. In the poet's best and worst, God stands tall as a guide and protector. There, the poet saw God.