Refresh

We have begun a new worship experience at Plank Chapel.  We call it Refresh.  Since our first night of worship, I have seen the work of God in our midst.  It is not only impacting those who are attending, it is working through those who are part of the leadership in worship.  We all are refreshed by these moments together.  It is still formative in all our hearts as we work to serve as God is leading us to serve at this twilight hour of the day. It is an interesting time for worship.  It is at a transition between day and night, a between time.

Have you noticed how God works in those between times, when one event has ended and we wait for the next to begin.  It is there in the between times that we are refreshed.  We are made new as we stretch into the changes created by the previous event.  Between times are also difficult.  There is awkwardness with our new sense of self.  We struggle with this new form trying to have it conform to what we knew while it is working within us to transform us into what we are created to be.   How is this refreshing?  It happens in the movement from the one to the other.  It happens in the breathing as we inhale, wait, and exhale.  It happens as we turn and discover we are changed.  It happens as the transition between day and night completes.  When we exhale and know down deep that we have been shaped by the Creator.  The process of changing within may not be observed, but those who see us, see the reflection of God's love in our lives.

I continue in the between times, continuing to be formed, informed, reformed, conformed, always transforming.  I am grateful for times where I can be refreshed by the Holy Spirit for the work before me.  I am grateful for those who come weekly to be refreshed as they too are in the between times being formed, informed, reformed, conforming, always transforming.  Together in our worship we allow joy, allow love, allow God that we might be refreshed.

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