Thoughts about Worship (and other ponderances) - From a Mortal

Sometimes, understanding a principle is easier understood by looking at what can constrain that principle in practice. That said, I wanted to throw out a quick note as to what can turn a path towards being a true worshiper into an uphill climb without the yodel. Jeremiah, Chapter 2 goes into somewhat of a bleak sounding proposition for the Isrealites. You can hear a jealous God asking the questions, "Why have you drifted so far?" He then provides an answer with His following rebuke. He let's them know that they drifted from HIM to themselves. They stopped asking, "Where is our God?" God is mournfully asking, "Why in this world have your hearts lost their love affair with me in exchange for meanless and temporary things?" God, through Jeremiah, speaks of different non-existent God's they were serving, but if you get to the raw bones of this thing, those "God's" were man-made creations that they came up with to nurture their NEED for so

Last night, I was playing with my daughter, Lyric, and she reminded me of something very important; very common knowledge, but how many of us adults turn loose of common knowledge for the more complex worries of time, space, and air. Lyric reminded me that life is what you make it. Or more importantly, what God wants to make it. I have a tendency to worry.....a lot. Some medical professionals hold to the theory that stress is the # 1 killer in the US. Why is it that we are so content to build unrealistic scenarios to worry about while we look, with patronizing grins, at our children who build unrealistic scenarios to dream and enjoy? Why is our lack of reality so "grown up" only when it is negative and stressful? Why is a child's lack of reality, at the same time, looked at as "childish" merely for the reason that does not bring with it some "bad news" about the world around them. I recently finished a podcast by Erwin McManus that deals with the thing