Worship

The last two nights I've experienced two incredibly different but both still incredibly inspiring examples of worship. I love worship- I love praise, I love the singing, I love the feel of being wrapped up in God's love, I can't get enough of it! I love that worship can happen anywhere- at camp, at church, in your car, in your room, on a mountain top, on the beach, anywhere. I love how it can take so many different forms and these two and I experienced these past two nights were amazing.

The first was at jr. high group on Wednesday. Outside of summer and winter camp, I have never seen such enthusiasm during worship. We were signing some pretty upbeat songs but still, every single kid was jumping up and down, dancing on couches, doing the hand motions, clapping, singing their hearts out, shouting and just praising the Lord with everything they had in them. It was in inspiring to see- these young kids, insecure, unsure of themselves, dealing with so many things- were just jumping up and down and praising Jesus. It was so cool to see! I am absolutely in love with these kids!

Then last night, was the total opposing. We had about 17-18 people at college group and all of us were sitting in a big circle- in the couch, in the floor, on the stools. Alvia and Seth were leading but we were all just singing together. During one of the songs, we kind of forgot some of the lyrics and it was so cool because we were all kind of mumble and hum along during the unknown lyric was just get much louder when we saw "still more awesome than I know...." It was pretty entertaining and we were all laughing while we were worshipping. At one point during the night, I opened my eyes and looked around the room. We were all in fellowship together while worshiping but we were also all in our own fellowship with God. Everyone's eyes were closed, everyone had a certain peaceful expression on their face, it was really cool to witness.

That's what I love about worship. We all are joined together by singing the same songs and singing to the same God. Yet at the same time, worship is a clearly personal act between you and God. It's individual yet communal at the same time. There are not a lot of things that have the same situation. But you have that with worship and that's why I love it.