Sunday, June 9, 2024

Dear God,

Worship, what is it really?  Today as I worshipped by zoom, I realized worship was more than just tuning in to Second Presbyterian Church.  Spending an hour in worship provides so much more than sitting in a pew with like-minded people praying, singing, standing, sitting, greeting one another and fellowshipping.

Worship is a time to dwell in your living presence.  It is a time to proclaim our faith, our beliefs and to reaffirm our trust in you.  Not only that, but it also offers opportunity to release our fears and doubts, to breathe in hope and to find strength for daily living.  More importantly, it is time to say thank you.  Our presence is a statement of faith and an appreciation for all you have done, are doing and will do in our daily lives.  We express our gratitude because we know much of what significantly happens in our lives is beyond our own ability to say and do and be and be about.  Your work in our lives shows up when we really pause and reflect.  Saying thank you is perhaps the most important thing we are about in worship.

Holy God,

thank you

for the blessings

of worship,

of faith

and love.

Thank you

for the chance

to say 

thank you,

thank you,

thank you.

What better place

to give thanks

than in

the very Church

you created.

Love, Andrea