Sunday Exuberance

Here are some brief thoughts from this morning.

One of the upsides of churches’ COVID response is more children attending the worship service since Sunday Schools are cancelled or abbreviated. In the service we attended today, I noticed a preschooler bounding into the sanctuary, zigzagging through the spaced seating, wildly waving his baggie of snacks or church kiddie activities. His mother trailed quite a few steps behind him, carrying his baby brother.

I thought about this little guy’s exuberance. Wow, shouldn’t we all be running into the worship service, dancing with joy at the experience of being with the people of God on the Lord’s Day?! Of course, there is reason for decorum too in God’s house but attending church ought to be fun and I love his evident happiness. It reminds me of the verse from the old King James version, “I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord.” Psalm 122:1

This is not the church we attended today but it’s the first place we were able to return to ‘in person’ back in late May.