Worship with every breath.

Friday evening found me at an amusement park, riding indoor rollercoasters, battling thunderstorms, sipping coffee, eating ice cream with good friends, meeting celebrities, waiting in long lines, and experiencing some unexpected worship.

I feel close to God a lot now.  The other day I missed my devotion in the morning and it felt so strange until I finally read my Bible and prayed for a while.  I don't know what it is, but even the most ordinary moments of my life I feel close to God.  On Friday at Rock the Universe, I felt close to God simply by being around other believers.  But then I had these couple moments by myself with a crowd of unknown faces watching Switchfoot in concert and I just had such a moment of worship towards God.  There's something about that band's lyrics that are beyond profound to me.  I stood towards the back, surrounded by strangers, listening to them sing Stars, Your Love is a Song, This is Your Life, The Sound, and Gone.  The rollercoaster gliding behind the stage, the lights shining, the stars twinkling above, all seemed to fade out as I listened to these songs and worshipped God.  How? I just kept thinking about how God created those stars shining overhead before He even created man, before I existed.  I thought about how His love is a song, how I just knew His love so deeply and He was becoming my everything.  I meditated on His sovereignty and His goodness. I thought about my life and about who I wanted to be- a servant of God.  It was something that God has been slowly nurturing in me, this desire to serve Him each moment of my life and now I'm finally beginning to embrace it.  Before long, my prayers came to a close when my friends joined me again and we walked off in our still-wet-from-the-rain TOMS out of the park and back to the bus.  We were heading home.  What a wonderful Friday with an unexpected moment of worship, a "captivating moment" with the Lord!