It was a Sunday morning like many others. I sat in the chapel in my typical pew. Before the worship service, I try to “center down” and put the spinning thoughts of my mind aside and quiet myself in God’s presence. I love listening to the band as they play preliminary music…..one beautiful hymn after another. The familiar words to those hymns flash on the screen and remind me that the Holy Spirit is working.

The worship leader got up to share a call to worship. I expected something like the often quoted, “This is the day that the Lord has made…”, Scripture is certainly appropriate. But it wasn’t Scripture. It wasn’t the familiar. I was struck by the quote and how it touched my heart not only to prepare me for the hour of worship that ensued, but has stuck with me since. It hit the nail on the head when trying to define worship…a life of worship.

“It’s an offering of the mundane, the exhilarating, the beautiful, the tragic, the big and the small, and everything in between to God. There’s no part of life that escapes the potential for the sacred. Spirituality is not a sector of life. Worship is not separate to your life. Lifting your hands in worship is no more holy than helping your neighbor rake his yard. Offered to God, life becomes holy. To the worshiper, there is no such thing as the secular; everything is spiritual because God is somehow holding it all together. There are burning bushes all around us, and the worshiper lives slowly enough to see them.” – Michael Gungor

I want every aspect of my life to be an offering of worship to God. Something tells me you do, too.