Worship & Kenny Rogers

So I've been feeling rather "lost" on weekends, without church. I'td been a big part of my live for most of the last 34 years. ANd I didn't feel led to find a new church, but how to worship? How to fill my weekends?

Well, I've discovered you can worship outside of church, you just have to think outside the box. You can owrship God by tlaking to a firend on the phone, ro in person, about God. You can worship jsut by enjoying the time you spend with friends and family. Reading your child a Bible story.

This really started to click for me when I went to Kenny Rogers concert with my friend Donna. The second half of the concert was xmas songs, and I think it was during "Mary did You Know". The song, (all the Christian carols actually) had so much meaning. It just gave me such a feeling of awe, wonder, I couldn't even speak. Donna leaned over and whispered "now this is worship!" And no, it wasn't Kenny Rogers we were worshipping at that moment.

I would never have thought I would experience God at a Kenny Rogers concert. So since then, I've been finding worship in lots of little and big ways. Winter beauty. Sitting down with bumbleberry pie and chai tea and thinking how God has blessed in my life. Enjoying the wonder of Chirstmas as seen through my child's eyes. Praying. Prayer journalling. Playing the piano. Listening to music.

God is an amazing, wonderful, awesome God, and He wants our worship and praise all the time- not just at church, and not just in conventional ways!

Chai latte &time with God.

So this is one of those weekends when it would be too easy to just stay busy with family stuff and forget to listen to God.

I have a birthday thing for my mom to go to tonight, with pretty much my whole former church group. I am hoping it goes well.

I took Rachel to storytime at the library this morning, and checked out some more videos and books for her. So, had some famly time.

Then it was home to do laundry, do some cleaning.

After the last sentence, I headed to the laundry and got the last load of towels from the dryer. Folded and put them away, talked to my dad, finshed handwashing a dress and skirt, and even got some praying/thinking in. All in about 10 minutes.

I was hoping to prayer journal before heading to my parents, but not enough time now. I'm still sorting out how to spend Saturdays now that I no longer go to church. I still think it should be my time with God, and also just having fun with my daughter. So yeah, guess I should've done laundry yesterday.

So I'm taking the girl child out to pay in the yard, then heading off to my parents.