E*B – Week #1 Discussion Question

Sunrise Over Superior by JU5T1N

For: Essentials Blue Online Worship History Course with Dan Wilt

I really resonate with beauty as our ever present reminder of God in the midst of day to day life. I find myself startled awake to the world around me when I pause long enough to take a deliberate look at the beauty surrounding me. The bleakness of the morning commute shattered by the beams of a beautiful sunrise.

Moments when the beauty breaks in and completely reframes how I see the world.

I see parallels between how I see beauty and how I walk with God. He breaks into my world and engages my heart, effectively resetting how I’m seeing the world and my place in it.

In both cases I desperately want to spend more of my life “awake” to the real world happening around me.

From a worship perspective, we sing a lot of songs about opening our eyes in the midst of darkness and having God change the way we see in the midst of praising Him. With lyrics like:

“You make everything glorious … What does that make me?” [1]

“You lift my head, and You steel my gaze. You cast out fear, and I’m moved to faith.” [2]

Songs like these move my heart and give me hope, so I try to bring them to our congregation in hopes that they might find similar encouragement in them.

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[1] David Crowder Band, “Everything Glorious”
[2] Jeremy Riddle “Surrendered in Praise”

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