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So I’ve been thinking about worship recently, trying to prepare a talk for 15 minutes on ‘what worship is’ and have been scratching my head as to where to start?
How can something so huge, so complex and so mysterious be neatly herded into a 15 minute slot? I guess the answer to that is that it can’t! Still when I think about those 15 minutes I realise that it is not only my talk that I’m trying to cram all the ‘God Stuff’ into...it’s a whole lot more.
My 15 minute quiet time...my 15 minutes of bible reading (if that!)...my 15 minute (4 song) worship session...my 15 minutes reading my Christian book...
Why do we compartmentalise our Christian lives like this so often?
In truth, it usually takes about 15 minutes for the point of my quiet time/ bible verse/ book/ song to fall out of my head and then it’s gone for the day!
I recently found myself inspired by Rob Bell’s ‘Nooma’ DVD’s and how a simple message of the Christian life could transmitted in the form of music, striking visuals and words of scripture.
I find those sorts of things helpful.
This week I was glancing through ‘my desktop’ backgrounds I saw a lot of pictures of creation that got me thinking. Words like ‘peace’, ‘journey’ and ‘mystery’ popped into my head as I looked at the pictures, somehow the picture and the word taking on a life of itself, sticking in my head for the rest of that day.
So...I decided that I wanted to write about the picture, to focus my thoughts, and see if in some small way, the picture and the word could find their way into my head and remind me of the divine that day.
Why am I telling you this? Well, I thought that I could send out a short email devotion (every now and then) with some thoughts, a picture, a verse of scripture, just pondering something of God. Maybe it might just help break that 15 minute ‘glass ceiling’ that so often is our time with God that day. I’m not quite sure what led me to do this, but I feel God wants me to give it a go and see what happens!
See what you think