Eyes wide open

A disclaimer before you read what I share: I try to be cautious not to write judgmentally and not to appear unduly critical  - these are my observations so that all of us, myself included, can perhaps be more mindful of this.. trap, I would call it? - when we worship. "I feel it." I admire those who pay much attention to the Holy Spirit, being led through the Praise & Worship set list by Him, thanking God for making His presence known among us as we put our praise on the altar. But I also wonder if anyone else makes the mistake - as I have done before, of focusing too much on emotional highs/lows, the leap of your heart, the sudden assault of goosebumps, the sudden tear-jerker... and mistaking these temporal physical reactions to be the fullness of God's presence. Undermining Christ. In many praise & worship gatherings I have been in, I see Jesus Christ reduced to a box only opened on Sundays for a good temporal goosebump thrill. Has the amazing life-changing...

              Little details catch my eye. Tiny mistakes raise alarm. Where other people might view fine details in a project as trivial and unimportant, I pay painstaking attention to each and every detail and expend time and effort to make sure every one of them is in perfect order. To be clear, I don’t have obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) – and maybe the description of my attention to detail above might be slightly exaggerated... But I definitely must say that I'm a perfectionist, wanting to make every effort a flawless one whenever I can.               I have been given several roles in ministry where my perfectionist eye is put to much use. For example, in my writing I try to choose each word carefully with my nose in an open thesaurus, also rereading each line twice or thrice to make sure it has a nice ring to it. When designing graphics...