June 5, 2011

Today was a day I’ll never forget. I went to Twin Lakes for church this morning. It’s a church with a congregation of about 1,000 if not more. It was refreshing to see other believers who actually lived in the community because all we had heard about was how spiritually dark it was here in Santa Cruz. We were in worship singing songs, and I see this little old lady. She was probably between 65-70 years old.  The whole time during each song on the front row to my left she danced. Now, I don’t know if you’ve ever seen a little old lady dance before, but I hadn’t. She danced her heart out praising and worshiping Jesus. When we sang “Rescue” she got down on her knees and bowed. It was all I could do not to cry watching this little old lady worship. I’ve never seen someone so in love and so lost in worship to where all they could do was dance, except where I had read in 2 Samuel 6:14 which says, “David, wearing a linen ephod, danced before the LORD with all his might,”. I felt like everyone in the service should be dancing and praising God because He is so worthy that He deserves all our praise. This lady had so much joy in her heart that she couldn’t contain it anymore, so she let it out. It touched my heart that this woman could be so in love with Jesus that it could change my walk with God. Today, I physically saw what it felt like “to have this joy, joy, joy, joy down in my heart”. The funny thing is she was wearing these big black glasses. She had either just had eye surgery, or she was blind.