Did you "pitch forward"? In other words did you do your "crazy praise dance" at church again? I hadn't heard "Cece" talk about this but she would say, Did He wake you up this morning? Or I would have said that to him. All I could say was Yes Dad. And he would make that giggle face, somewhat embarrassed and(I would imagine) somewhat jealous at my liberty to make a complete fool out of myself for Jesus. God is worthy. I would always pray God would be glorified in my worship and that I would have my whole family worshiping with me, I wished that my Daddy could understand why I praise God, like I do.
Well, last night we had the church fall festival and my whole crazy praise dance troop (me and my children)reminded me what fools for Jesus that we have raised. God is so faithful to answer prayer. We were in the rain glorifying the God of the Universe with all that was within us. We have the God of the Universe resident in our souls, in Jesus and we "pitched forward", as Dad would say. When I am tempted to wonder where did those crazy praise dancers come from?, the Lord reminds me that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
God is so worthy of all the glory and we didn't need much provocation to dance before Him last night but outside with the light rain upon falling on our heads, we danced, like David in the scriptures.
Grandma Ruth used to say, I don't know what religion they are, but whatever they are, they agree. (Speaking of Ben and I) Last night it was a posse of praise dancers, glorifying God under the mists.
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God's Grace is amazing!!! Our family has taken unique within each of our siblings. No two are on the same path but God's Love is evident in each I am humbled and awed by not just the external blessings showering down but also the internal bubbling up of JOY even in the midst of difficulty. Dance Jayne that's Right. I wave my hand in Praise with you :)
Great word picture.. Thanks
hey Jayne everytime i read your blog other things come to mu mind>>>>:) do you remember singing in the backyard with Pam ,Teresa,you and two guys (cant think of their names)....now that was funny keep singing
jackie
Pam and Theresa and I used to practice at T's house, pretending to be Love Alive. We had the Hawkins "album" and would practice and sing and one time we were going to do a concert. I don't remember why we didn't go to the concert to sing at this public thing. We were the original "alleycats" of our backyard. I loved the sounds that we were making, even if nobody else did.:)
Youth and spending your attention and skills for the glory of God needs to be encouraged in the youth. We lived in a time where that was something the elders seemed to understand.
I think Fred Hammond, Cece and Donnie, Kirk Franklin, etc. have gone to the next level in that whittling excellence into Christian music. I prayed, when I became a Christian, that He would do something to make music of God more palatable to me. I was haunted daily, with the words of popular music and there was no comparison in the power of Christian music and sound. I appreciate God's providence in developing Christian Music to a better standard, if only for me and my perfectionistic standards. I love music and all kinds of music and God has been good enough to give us a multicultural church where we can praise the Lord with the multidimensional nature of our lives. My praise to God is for Him and unto Him. The rain was a reminder to me that God has been answering my prayers. I love Him for caring, even about my peculiar stumbling block of hating "ugly music".
ALLYCATS you were(funny)
we love all kinds of music as well and try hard not to jugde,"THE BAD MUSIC" cause they think there is a message in their music also !!! but luckily i can turn the station or just play my ipod :)
keep singing
I didn't say "bad music", I mean ugly music. The sound of Christian music was snowy and crackly and I couldn't stand listening to it. I said God, if you don't fix this music sound, I can't listen to that stuff. I love James Cleveland and Shirley Ceasar, but the sounds behind the music was intolerable to me. I couldn't identify with music that was crackly and "ugly". God had mercy on me! No kidding!
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