What a great weekend filled with sooo much. On saturday I attended a worship conference. This was so amazing, I re-learned some things you tend to forget when you sing on stage week after week. I also went to this workshop about bring visual arts and interpretative dance into worship. WOW! I know it is such a far fetched idea for my church who seem to be stuck in the older ways, but wow to be able to glorify God with our whole body and with the gifts he gives us. AMAZING! I really have a passion to bring this into our church's worship. I think it is such a beautiful thing. Well in this particular workshop they talked alot about the different forms of worship which is so amazing because I am in the midst of creating a speaking topic about the many different forms of worship, and the ways God loves them. I just think that maybe every couple of months it would be so incredibly astounding to have a dancer come and dance to a worship song. I love to dance and think it is a beautiful thing to see someone dance for the Lord and put so much passion and heart into a song. i believe it brings a new level of worship to the stage! Just my thought. We will see if we incorporate this into our sundays but I think it could be pretty moving.
Then on sunday during worship time my husband who is our worship leader at church was talking about worship and how some people come to church on sundays and during the song they are just singing because thats what the person next to them is doing, but might not be thinking about song, but rather what they have to do at home or what someone just said to them(I am guilty of this I have to say). He encouraged us no matter how good or not good we sound to belt it out and think about the words you are singing and to truly mean them. Like you are alone in the car with your very favorite song that you can't help but sing! And to truly sing with all your heart on sunday morning, because good or not its a joyful noise to God. What a great reminder! There are so many times when our minds are not in what we are doing at the moment therefore we are not giving our whole self to that thing whatever it may be, it doesn't have to be singing at church. It is so true though, in this busy life, our minds are filled with so many things that sometimes and quite often in most cases we don't give 100% to what we are doing. How sad is that? some people say then why give anything at all! Just a thought.
Also on sunday I was teaching sunday school to 1st-3rd graders and we were reading in Ruth chapter 3 and it talks about Ruth and how she went to Boaz and basically asked him to marry her. WOW I was thinking the whole time that I could never ever be brave enough to go to a man in the middle of the night and uncovered his feet and layed there at his feet... um that is kind of gross! I cannot stand feet! But to just go there and ask a man basically to marry you? That has got to take some courage. I could never do that, and it makes me wonder... cause so many women in the Bible had so much courage to just ask for what they want.. I wonder if that has been lost over the years. Because I know a lot of women today who would not be comfortable doing that. I mean really I have never been that kind of person that could just come out and be like I want you to marry me! Where has the confidence of women gone? Is it because over the years women have been rejected, or left etc... I wonder if it has to do with how we are raised nowadays or if its a generational sin. Cause some women have no problems asking for what they want, while others could never in a million years! just makes me think!
So yeah that was my weekend and then Sunday night I got to just be with my family which was so amazing. It was a nice way to end our busy weekend! Hope you all had a great weekend!
Also on sunday I was teaching sunday school to 1st-3rd graders and we were reading in Ruth chapter 3 and it talks about Ruth and how she went to Boaz and basically asked him to marry her. WOW I was thinking the whole time that I could never ever be brave enough to go to a man in the middle of the night and uncovered his feet and layed there at his feet... um that is kind of gross! I cannot stand feet! But to just go there and ask a man basically to marry you? That has got to take some courage. I could never do that, and it makes me wonder... cause so many women in the Bible had so much courage to just ask for what they want.. I wonder if that has been lost over the years. Because I know a lot of women today who would not be comfortable doing that. I mean really I have never been that kind of person that could just come out and be like I want you to marry me! Where has the confidence of women gone? Is it because over the years women have been rejected, or left etc... I wonder if it has to do with how we are raised nowadays or if its a generational sin. Cause some women have no problems asking for what they want, while others could never in a million years! just makes me think!
So yeah that was my weekend and then Sunday night I got to just be with my family which was so amazing. It was a nice way to end our busy weekend! Hope you all had a great weekend!
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