Like I previously posted, I am up at Samish Island Campgrounds cooking for a Zen Meditation Camp. This is one of the few weeklong camps that I help out at or attend that includes a Sunday morning. Most start on Sunday evening and end on Saturday morning. On camps that I am staff on I usually come a day early for staff meetings but even then then we usually have a worship on Sunday morning. Since I was cooking on Sunday Morning this past weekend I couldn’t go to church.
I started my work by selecting some music for us to listen to while cooking. For the most part, I have been playing Mix CD’s (country, pop, rock, hip-hop, etc.) that I made on my computer. Though, since it was Sunday morning I decided to play a Chris Rice (one of my top 2 favorite Christian music singer) CD and then one by Michael W. Smith. While preparing the breakfast meal and listening to Inspirational music I experienced worship. Sometimes it is very easy to get caught up in a narrowly defined view of worship though it is important to remember that worship comes in many forms and is often times more than just sitting in a pew in a building at the 11 o’clock hour once a week. Opportunities for worship is happening all around us, we just need to be aware of it.
One of my favorite Chris Rice songs - “Untitled Hymn (Come to Jesus)”:
