What I need church to be about

Church this morning was just what I need to church to be about.

It had nothing to do with the music, the lighting, the sermon, communion or how many people said hello to me this morning (I snuck in after church had started and tried to leave before it was over, someone caught me).

Church this morning was just what I need church to be about because the man who got up to lead the morning prayer shared from his heart and prayed from the depths of his soul and was crying so much at one point that he had to stop and let the silence reign.

It was just what I need church to be about, allowing our humanness to eek out and the grace of God to eek in.  

I loved this morning at church.