Living on a Teeter-totter

All my life I've heard that women are more emotional than men and have more ups and downs. Like most aspects of life, there are two sides to the issue. On the positive side, "emotional" could be connected with words like "empathetic", "intuitive", "compassionate", "sensitive" or even "nurturing". On the negative side, one may hear words like "moody", "hyper-sensitive", "high-strung" or "touchy". This past week has been incredibly emotional and I've probably fit the description of every one of those words at some point. Let's be really comprehensive and throw in hysterical, weepy, desperate, ecstatic, frustrated, worried, depressed, insightful, comforting and conciliatory for good measure. They didn't all happen in one day (PRAISE GOD!) but the week went by like a wave; Monday was middlin', Tuesday-high, Wednesday-low, Thursday-high, Friday-LOW, Saturday-HIGH. The dips and crests got wider as the week went on. I'm really feeling quite confident about Sunday unless I put too much stock in reading patterns into things. If Sunday does follow the pattern then I'm not getting out of bed.
When you have days (or weeks or months) like this, just remember:

"Oh Lord, You have searched me and You know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; You perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; You are familiar with all of my ways. Before a word is on my tongue You know it completely, O Lord.

You hem me in--behind and before; You have laid Your hand on me....Where can I go from Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence? If I go to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in the depths, You are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there Your hand will guide me; Your right hand will hold me fast. If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me," even the darkness will not be dark to You; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to You.

For You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, Your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in Your book before one of them came to be....

Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me and lead me in the life everlasting.

(excerpts from Psalm 139)