Summer time

Yesterday was Pentecost and I along with others from 5 local churches came together to celebrate the end of our Alpha course and to celebrate Pentecost.  The evening went well and I personnally found the worship songs most uplifing, infact I found myself wanting to carry on singing and praising God.  I recognise how vital it is for me to be filled in worship and to meet and praise.  But I also acknowledge my lazyness in expecting to turn up and plug into worship that does it for me, in the slot of time I have avaliable! 

This morning I was awoken by a dawn chorus of bird song, something I really didnt welcome at such an early hour, but here was worship pure worship of God's nature singing to the world.  I was struck by how effortless and yet beautiful this was and how nature praises through being.  I have often told my children that everything they do if given to God is an act of worship, so playing football, bouncing on the trampoline, working hard at school etc are all acts of worship, prayers of thanks for what God has given us.  And yet I make the mistake day in day out of trying to find what does it for me, relying on plug in worship when God simply wants to meet me where I am in my day and to take centeral place and for me to hand everything over to him. 

So today I am trying something new - I am going to live my day as an act of worship, I am going to let my day sing my praise to God, I am going to let my work be my offering and I am going to spend a few moments noticing how nature worships and I am going to be filled from all that is around me because that is what God has freely given me and I will try tomorrow to be glad to hear the dawn chorus and to live my day to the full as God would have me do.