Tour Time

I'm turning into a morning person.  I don't know whether to be proud of myself or seriously concerned.  I got up today (on a Saturday!!) at 6:30:  1) because I could  2) so I could go for a run  3) because Touring Choir leaves for Tour today!!

I am excited for tour.  Part of me wants to just go home, and be with my family, and go to my own church for Easter, but I know that I will enjoy Tour and that lots of memories will be made. 

Please pray for the touring choir as we travel.  We'll be gone until the 25th, traveling to Chicago and back, stopping to do a concert every day, with 2 concerts each Sunday.

Pray for safety and health. 

Pray that we work and travel well together. "Living" in a bus for ten days with 47 other people can be stressful at times…  

Pray that we "encourage one another daily, as long as it is called today" (Hebrews 3:13). 

Pray that our concerts would be glorifying to the King, that those who hear us would hear our words and praise Him as well (Matthew 5:16). 

Pray that our lives would reflect Christ as we stay in host homes, walk in the city, and stay in various churches. 

Pray that as I sing, I can truly be worshipping God, not just going through the motions. 

CS Lewis, in his book "Reflections on the Psalms", says this:

"It is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men."

Pray that as I worship during this Easter week, that I can feel God's presence and know His glory and His worth.

CS Lewis also says this, which makes perfect sense to me and is probably why I enjoy choir so much:

"I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses, but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation."

Pray that as I sing, that I would be praising God and enjoying Him. 

Touring Choir from 2010, singing the Benediction

I pray that this week, as we speak through the Gospel and are reminded of the powerful sacrifice and immense glory of God, that we would glorify God by enjoying Him, whatever we are doing.