The past few days I have been thinking about worship. So quickly when we hear that word we define it as singing along with our favorite Christian songs. This is certainly a start, but the concept of worship is to express thanksgiving and joy in our God who is all around us. Sometimes this is tasks such as painting or writing or dancing in order to express our happiness to be serving the lord. However, there are other ways we don’t think about which are also considered worship. One is discovery, searching for evidence of the Lord’s existence in things such as science or history. Our lord actually encourages us to do research, to question everything because He wants us to find the truth in what is out there. He says He is in “every little thing” (1Cor 8:6) you just have to look. I encourage you to look for what Kathy Vallotton calls “little miracles.” Things that just seem to go just right, or a perfectly colored sunset, or an act of kindness directed towards you just because. Even just being thankful for waking up every morning to serve another day. Give thanks for these little things and you will be surprised what He gives you in return. These little miracles opened my ears to hear the messages in music. What will He do for you?

Here are some little miracles I observed this week: Many streets lights this week have turned green in my favor. I have thanked Him for every one. Twice I experienced a light cycle working out of order just for me. The weather could not have been more perfect for an outside high-school marching band competition I went to support. I got a bunch of free Apples offered to me after almost buying some apples at the store earlier that day.

I was shown the first color of the sky in the morning is pink, the color of joy (there will be Joy in the morning Psalm 30:5). the last colors are pink and purple. Joy and Royalty. God told me the shepherd is Joy (Jesus). Royalty is what He is and what we are now through the blood of Jesus. The cycle of the sky is showing us the “birth of Jesus” and the “rebirth of Jesus.” The rainbow (God’s promise never to flood the earth, Gen 9:13-16) starts with red (the blood of Jesus) and ends with purple (Royalty again).

The point is this: we take everything for granted. We have lived life long enough to think we know everything (no matter our age) and that there is nothing else to experience. We forget just how perfect our circumstances truly are, such as how difficult it is to have the perfect building blocks for life or how the seasons tell a story of life, death and rebirth or how the water cycle is literally what keeps all of us going, that nothing living can be without it. I challenge the readers today to look with new eyes and a new heart at every little thing in their lives and appreciate all the good in it. There is not good luck but a good omnipresent God who loves you and cares for you no matter what (John 1:16).