by Anna
Two weeks ago I went to my old church, where we used to live before Breadcrumb (yes, this post has been brewing for two weeks now, just shows how much free time - and free state of mind - I have these days...). It was lovely to see everyone and Breadcrumb was being really good considering all the new faces and new surroundings. After the service, one woman came up to me and said: "I was watching you dancing away with your baby during the hymns, and it was just so great!"
The sermon had been on Matthew 22:37-38 in relation with Deuteronomy 6:5 - loving God with all your soul, heart, mind, strength, and the minister expanded it to all your self, including your body too.
Two weeks ago I went to my old church, where we used to live before Breadcrumb (yes, this post has been brewing for two weeks now, just shows how much free time - and free state of mind - I have these days...). It was lovely to see everyone and Breadcrumb was being really good considering all the new faces and new surroundings. After the service, one woman came up to me and said: "I was watching you dancing away with your baby during the hymns, and it was just so great!"
The sermon had been on Matthew 22:37-38 in relation with Deuteronomy 6:5 - loving God with all your soul, heart, mind, strength, and the minister expanded it to all your self, including your body too.
Now, I've never been much of a physical worshipper, feeling slightly awkward when people raised their hands in song or did similar things, but now here I am, dancing away and I realise that what had started as a way of keeping Breadcrumb entertained during services became a whole new way of worshipping for me. By dancing with Breadcrumb, I worship God with all of my body, as well as communicating to my son that worshipping God and loving God is joyful. Church is fun, my little one, loving God is fun. Don't you ever let people tell you that it's all so serious and solemn. Yes, there is time and need for reflection and seriousness and solemnity, but you're too little for all that for now, so dance and sing and rejoice. And so shall I.