My friend who knows I love Frederick Buechner encouraged me to sign up for a daily email with a different Buechner quote. Today, I loved this quote about what it means to worship God. Buechner reminds me that when we truly love God, we’ll respond with joy and foolishness (like all lovers always have when they are in love). Here’s a great part of his quote: “To worship God means to serve him. Basically there are two ways to do it. One way is to do things for him that he needs to have done—run errands for him, carry messages for him, fight on his side, feed his lambs, and so on. The other way is to do things for him that you need to do—sing songs for him, create beautiful things for him, give things up for him, tell him what’s on your mind and in your heart, in general rejoice in him and make a fool of yourself for him the way lovers have always made fools of themselves for the one they love.”
All morning, I think about God sending me on errands, giving me a message to deliver, or inviting me into spiritual battle with Him. I think about spending the day creating something beautiful or giving up a certain right to myself I’m holding onto. In other words, I remember to cry, “I will live the life You ask me to—because I love You and will make a fool of myself for You!”