A Hallmark of Worship
I am sure you have all had this experience – you walk down the isle of the card shop looking for that perfect greeting card. It is quite the sight on Valentines day watching a bunch of men looking through card after card as they do their last minute search for the one that says it just right. I remember an experience when I found a perfect card. My Dad had been battling cancer for almost three years – things were not looking good and I had some things I wanted to tell him. Knowing it was going to be awkward I decided to write him so I looked for a card. I went into the bookstore at Tyndale where I work and started to look through the cards there. Within a few minutes I was almost in tears as I read the card in my hand. It said exactly what I wanted to say in a way that I could never express with my own words.A while ago I was reflecting on worship when I was planning a service for our youth meeting. I read the words to a song and they really expressed what I wanted to say. The experience of the greeting card came to my mind. This got me thinking more about how greeting cards and worship songs are similar in some ways.
When we worship we are really communicating with God -we are expressing our love, thanks, blessings, honour etc. to him.
Let’s look at this example from Pslams 63 – a song from way back 
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