Beyond the Music
Worship Artisan in Training
Creativity
Jan 22nd
Fascinating the article from Dan Wilt about creativity.
He says: “When Jesus indwells us, He revives our deadened souls, stirs the water of our creativity and becomes the pneumatological impetus and eternally ordained focus of our expression. This is true whether we are storytelling, feeding the poor, caring for a neighbor or leading people in worship.” Sacred Creativity, Dan Wilt.
These words inpired me to let Him create through me and in me. What an amazing God we have that longs to have a relationship with us and desires to dwell in us.
Family as Worship
Jan 19th
What an encouragement to hear Matt Redman’s insight about worship and his role as a dad. So many times, we think that worship has to do with the music that we make on a given Sunday. We limit so much what the real meaning of worship is.
Redman’s thoughts resonated with me and my season in life. Yes, it is worship and I choose to believe that it is worship to modify my life in order to be a better and more available mother and wife. It is worship when I rest at night so I can be awake and alive in the morning to play, serve, and live with my family.
I worshipped the Lord today, when I left the dishes in the sink and sat with my 10 years old and listened to her play the violin. In the process, she taught me to play one song myself!
I will worship the Lord tomorrow, when I sing happy birthday to my little 3 years old and the chores of the day will stop to just …be and be with her. Happy birthday little Eden! I love you.
Prayer as worship
Jan 18th
A man who has truly mastered the utterances of Jesus will also be able to apprehend His silence, and thus reach full spiritual maturity, so that his own words have the force of actions and his silences the significance of speech. Nothing is hidden from the Lord; even our most secret thoughts are ever present to Him. Whatever we do, then, let it be done as though He Himself were dwelling within us, we being as it were His temples and He within us as their God. For in fact, that is literally the case; and in proportion as we rightly love Him, so it will become clear to our eyes.
Ignatius of Antioch, The Epistle to the Ephesians, 14-15, in Early Christian Writings. The Apostolic Fathers, translated by Maxwell Staniforth (Middlesex, Penguin, 1968) 79-80.
Here I am…
Jan 17th
Here I am… a mom of two beautiful girls and wife to a great man. Here I am… a cultural mutt, trying to share my thoughts and discoveries in a, many times, broken English. Here I am… ready and excited to see what the Lord will continue to do with a willing and available heart.
The term “Worship Artisan” is in itself huge for me. “In Training” makes me feel more at ease. Here I go, ready for the ride!
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