With Quietness and Reverence
It’s tempting in our culture to operate from a mindset of “Ready, Fire, Aim.” But we can injure a lot of innocent people that way.
Connie Wieck is Effingham Centenary’s official United Methodist Covenant Partner Missionary; ask me about that sometime, it’s a good relationship.
We were thrilled to have her speak in worship recently. A sliver of what all she shared sounds to me like a Call to Worship. It comes from a different time and place than where and when you and I live. It’s applicable to many times and places…in fact, I can’t think of a place it’s not both true and needed —
God is in this place.
All people on the earth
ought to come before God
with quietness and reverence.
Let’s listen today for what 1st Kings 19:11-13 calls God’ s “still, small voice.”
Let’s listen “with quietness and reverence.”
And let’s re-apply these ancient words from Connie Wieck’s mission field into ours as often needed.
joescheets 
Sound advice. I need to heed it.
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Lots of us do
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I find quietness and reverence in classical music. Not so much in today’s worship services.
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I hear that, and no pun intended. Sometimes an art museum is such a place, too. Hmmmm. A Joni Mitchell song says, “Something’s lost and something’s gained, in living every day,” and too often in churches we can get tripped up in that in-between space…we’ve lost something but haven’t quite yet found the replacement….
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But just perhaps, our worship here is practice for the real thing on the other side.
My practicing at home isn’t very inspiring. It’s only when it’s put together with the whole orchestra, and we are in concert, that it really stirs the heart.
I certainly want to be ready when the time comes for the real thing!
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Amen!
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