Creative Chaos 9
Creative Chaos // 9 @ Ragamuffin Soul
As a worship team member, sometimes I’m just not in a ‘worshipful’ mood. Today’s Creative Chaos post deals with being musically creative in the midst of, well, life’s chaos. Let’s face it: Those platitudes we get at church sometimes just don’t cut it.
And that’s ok. Those platitudes are ideas and one-liners that people in the church have put forth. They’re not necessarily biblical. Listen to k-love some time, and you get the idea that Christianity is just a slap-happy, feel good place to be all of the time. Some churches I’ve been to even consider it wrong to show up on Sunday morning with anything but this attitude.
But read the Psalms some time. Basically, this book of the bible is a collection of music where the writers run the emotional gamut of the human experience. You name it, it’s in there: Joy, peace, contempt, hatred, despair, and a lot of other things in between. I don’t need to be emotionally “up” all the time in order to be in a worshipful place in my own heart. They have meds for that. What I do need to be is mindful of my own state of being, and be sure that I don’t negatively affect somebody with anything I might say or do. Show up, pray, play, let it just happen. In the end, I believe that God honors us working through whatever is hanging up in our lives, even if that means we don’t “feel” ready to get musically creative. And somewhere in there, I think we find the reality of what it means to be a Christian. That’s the place where healing and wholeness come together.
