Worship

I was on the road driving during "church time" yesterday. I live in the South, and there is the tendency of people here to look at you like you are a horrible sinner if you're caught away from church on Sunday morning. I find myself falling into the category of people who church worship isn't appropriate for. For many years, I loved church. I liked the people I met there, the music, the message. After six years living in a highly socially liberal area, I find that I don't much like the people who go to church here. This is a generalization, so it doesn't apply to all churchgoers in this area.

I feel like that people who say "Have a Blessed day!" are trying to convince you of their piety. It grates on my nerves. I don't care about your piety. I'm more concerned about whether or not your a nice person. Piety does not equal nicety.

There are signs in people's yards and on their cars. They are mysterious in order to get you to visit their website or buy into their ideas. Everyone wants to display what church they are a part of. It feels like they are rubbing it in your face that they go to church. Going to church also does not equal being a nice person. 

These aren't people that I want to spend time with. I don't want to talk to them. I don't want to listen to them. I don't want to be near them. I don't want to be judged by them, because they seem to think that being pious and going to church are the things that make you worthwhile.

I still worship, even though I don't go to church. I look at the beautiful sunset and think how great is the power of God. I wonder at how perfectly the Earth was made in order to sustain life. I listen to the giggles of a two-year-old and think how wonderful it is to be that amazed by new things every time.

The world is my sacred space. Life is my worship. How do you worship?