I wanted to thank those of you who posted such wonderful things for me to think on, things to encourage me with, and just things to say "I know..." I normally shut these emotions back some where, I hint about them here and there, but I needed to be real some where. Thanks guys for letting me be that and sticking around.
I'm doing a first today. I am going to a Taize Service at an Anglican Church. I have never been to one, but I am looking forward to something new. It might just be something I need. I was reading up a little bit about them and I found where it focuses on being silent with God. I think after hitting the wall again and realizing once more I have alot of work to do with God this might be something to refresh myself with. So I'm praying tonight that God uses this time as something special and as a time of renewal.
I will update y'all tomorrow about it.
Blessings-
About Me
- Jewels
- Since I was two weeks old I have moved around with my family, was mostly raised in Mississippi, but found a home in Arkansas. I am a Christian, trying to figure out what God wants and trying to follow the path He has set for me. I feel I have always been in a dance with God. So this has been my life, following God, sometimes with passion, sometimes just following, and other times just not. All I know is He is my Father and I pray we always dance together.
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I remember the first night at Taize, I was used to praise and worship with guitars, or organs and hymms, but this was different. We sat on the floor, then the chanting began, wow chanting, are these guys even christians? Because I know a little Latin I soon realised that they were singing about God.
And then we prayed in silence, and it seemed to go on forever, my butt was numb sitting on the floor, I felt cramped and uncomfortable.
But as the week unfolded I began to feel the praise in those Gregorian chants, to connect with the tradition that streched back more than a 1000 years, and I began to drink in the silence. I remember on day sitting in silent prayer after everyone else had left because I hadn't got enough silence.
I think that I need to go back to France and spend a week in silence at Taize.
God bless you in your Taize worship Jewels
Andrew
You know Andrew, I think your right about a Taize Worship Service. It is more about what happens over the week and not at that moment. I have scene a differene in me. Its more internal but its there.
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