Overflowing

We just had a spectacular experience today and this evening. We had a worship workshop at church with Todd Sukany and the praise team from The Vineyard, and my spirit just feels filled to the brim. It was so exciting to hear ideas expressed and reinforced that my spirit so agrees with. Worship is such an amazing, living thing, and an outward expression of our love for God, and I feel so blessed to be included in our praise team at Schweitzer and so honored to be allowed to help others experience and participate in worship in hopefully a meaningful way.

I really needed today. I've been pretty down in the past few weeks about singing. I had such awful stage fright during our cantata, and I know I wasn't able to sing my best. It was so frustrating, but I really think it was God's way of teaching me a lesson. This is not about performing....it's all about worship, and I feel so completely different when I am truly singing with an attitude of worship (i.e. praise band on Saturdays or Sundays). It's so funny to me because when I was younger, I sang solos all the time, and never felt nervous, and always felt confident (and I think sounded confident), but I guess it's just been such a long time that I've lost that confidence. Something Todd said tonight really stuck with me, though, about constantly working on improving his skills. I have so wanted to take voice lessons all of my life, and never have taken the time. I think I'm really ready to begin working on these skills if I am truly serious about continuing to serve God in this way (and I TRULY am!). I'll have to start asking around about voice teachers.

In other news, aside from the workshop, today was a fairly productive day. I managed, with the help of the kids, to get the house clean and straightened, then answered a bunch of e-mails, and did some work on my upcoming class reunion. The weekends just zoom by too quickly! It's back to school next week for the kids, though, so things will begin to get back to our normal schedule.

Later!