ocr: Whatever the phrase practicing the presence of God" means, David experienced it. He intentionally involved God in every detail of his life. David firmly pelieved he mattered to God. Atter one TaTTUT escape he wrote, "[God] rescued me because he delighted in me - Psalm 18:19). Another time he argued, in sO many words (Psalm 30),"What good will it do you if I die, Lord? Who will praise you then?" And this psalm, 139, beautifully expresses David's sense of wonder at God's love and concern. Reading David's osalms, with all their emotional peaks and valleys, it may even seem that he wrote them as a ...