The last week of December found me weathering the St. Louis cold to understand more about God and missionary work. The Urbana ‘06 missions conference took up all of downtown St. Louis and then some, of which I will talk about in following posts. The purpose of this post is to bring to light a thought that had been dwelling in my mind since Urbana. While attending one of the worship sessions, I noticed that for the attending deaf, an American sign translator was provided. A question then occurred to me, “How do deaf people worship?” In my limited scope, I saw worship as words describing what I feel both whether I was saying them out loud or in my mind. Basically it all comes down to asking how deaf people think. Do they think in words, or in hand motions, or both? Trying to wrap my mind around the thought of expressive, descriptive worship in hand motions just baffles me. I am not saying that it is impossible. I believe that there is no constraint to worship so long as it is a persons expressive feelings towards God’s love and provision. Don’t get me wrong here, this is only the tip of the worship iceberg as worship it self goes far beyond that which is said here. What this post all comes down to is the realization that worship goes deeper than just what can be said with words through song, but all the way down to the state of our hearts. Whether we worship with our voices or hands, it is trivial in comparison to that our our hearts. I may not understand how worship works in relation to other people, but I know that God knows the conditions of our hearts.

Originally I had another blog but couldn't import some of those posts into this one. Even with that problem, this should work out better because I was going off on tangents away from the purposes of what I had originally intended for that blog. So with that said I start afresh with this blog.