God's Message for Each Day Copyright © 2004 by Eugene H. Peterson. LIVING WELL Help me understand these things inside and out so I can ponder your miracle-wonders. PSALM 119:27, THE MESSAGE What do Bible stories tell us about living this human life well, living it totally? Primarily and mostly they tell us that it means dealing with God. It means dealing with a lot of other things as well: danger and parents and enemies and friends and lovers and children and wives and pride and humiliation and . . . sickness and death and sexuality . . . and fear and peace— to say nothing of diapers . . . and breakfast and traffic jams and clogged drainpipes and bounced checks. But always, at the forefront and in the background of circumstances, events, and people, it’s God.