A Liturgy of Your Day

Although it’s most often used in regards to a worship service, a liturgy is just an ordered way of doing things. For example, there’s a liturgy to checking out at the grocery store - you greet the checker (Hey, how are you today?), you pay, and you say thank you or good bye. There’s also a liturgy to how you wake up in the morning - maybe you have some coffee and eat something and then brush your teeth and grab a shower. But it’s a routine and it helps you move purposefully through your day without having to reconsider every step every time. Could you imagine if you spent a lot of time trying to decide if you were going to greet the checkout person at the store, or if you had a major internal debate each morning about brushing your teeth?

What if you thought of a whole day as a worship service, and you built in a liturgy for your days? You wouldn’t have to spend a ton of time every day deciding when and if you were going to talk directly to God. A simple bible verse about this captures how David set aside regular times to connect with God each day:

Evening, morning and noon I cry out in distress, and he hears my voice.

- Psalm 55:17

Over the next few weeks we will continue to be talking about spiritual practices that we can integrate into our normal, everyday lives.

Perhaps one thing you could do now is to surface the liturgy of the days that you practice already. Are there times when you give thanks? Do you always pray when you get up or go to bed? Are there moments of rest or wonder built into your day (even if it’s walking to your car as you leave work or looking out the kitchen window when you do dishes)? Spend time today thinking about your liturgies, particularly the ones that help you feel more connected to God, to yourself, and to others.