Before I forget...on Sunday we did our pizza and toiletries giveaway to the residents at the YMCA. Everything went pretty well. I noticed that afterwards, when we had a time of sung worship, there was a greater willingness than usual to really enter into God's presence.

I'm not saying that we never enter into God's presence, but I've been chatting a bit with Lewis about the idea that we need to be worshipping with everything that we are in order to truly enter into sung worship.

I have a hunch that part of what made Sunday night so special was that we came from the point of serving, of stepping outside of our comfort zones, and of worshipping with our bodies through that service. This meant that, when we had already been in an attitude of worship, we could really dive into God's presence for some time in awe of him.