I love being on the graphics team at my church. I love being able to help people worship with easy to read lyrics that transition right when they need them to. I love choosing beautiful backgrounds that enhance worship and don’t distract. I love getting better at my role. One thing I didn’t really think I would love is my own worship on those Sundays.
I thought of it as a sacrifice. I’m so busy and focused on making sure the display is right for the churchgoers that I don’t really get to relax and worship myself. Sometimes I try to sing myself, but if I get too carried away worshiping with everyone, I will get lost and forget to transition at the right time. So I try not to do that. But it’s okay, I’m really glad I am able to serve in this way.
This past Sunday though I picked up on something, I think that I’ve felt before but never really stopped to consider. We were playing a new (to me) song called Good Good Father by Housefires. (Watch here, it’s really good!)
So I am adjusting the lyrics in ProPresenter in the morning, and running through the song with the band a bit later, and then running it again three more times during the services. I get to look at all the lyrics at once, over and over again, and these were sticking out to me:
You’re a good, good Father
It’s who You are
It’s who You are
It’s who You are
And I’m loved by You
It’s who I am
It’s who I am
It’s who I am
I became overwhelmed with emotion. I love worshiping on Sundays, but the lyrics just come and go and if I’m not really in the right place mentally or emotionally the lyrics don’t sink in like I think they should. But this Sunday they were just sitting there staring at me and they didn’t go away. Even when I had moved on to other slides for the church to sing the rest of the song, I was still seeing these and it was like it was being pressed into me whether I liked it or not, and these particular words meant a lot for me to hear at this particular time.
I think this has actually happened to me a lot on the Sundays I’ve run graphics. One or two verses in a song, or the chorus, will just stand out to me, and I see it over and over again and it just sits there on the computer screen no matter which lyrics are up on display. It’s really pretty awesome. I end up worshiping in a completely different way.
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