Liturgy

For the last two years we have shifted our worship service to a bit more liturgy.  This includes an Old Testament reading, a confession of sin and a 'words of encouragement'.  I have wondered when it would become rote and I would be bored with it.  I am, after all, easily bored.  I scared Marti on our honeymoon after a few days, when I had to go to the store and buy something to read, Readers Digest.  I still really enjoy the liturgy, and I think I know why.
I spend a lot of my time living like a character in a play, not sure who the playwright is and what the plot is.  So I busy myself with the necessaries of job, family and life, because that is always clear and what to do next is evident..  I may not have lived very much today, but at least I got the oil changed in the car, counseled a few people, prepped a sermon, bought the groceries and made it to my kid's event at school.  Not alot of reflection there and not a lot of the sense of the divine.  Not that those activities are bad, they are not.  It is just that my awareness of myself, awareness of Jesus and  the Spirit is often lacking.
I believe it is lacking because I am not sure who I am and where I fit, particularly in God's drama.
Every Sunday, though, through words and song and prayer, I am reminded that I am a part of the play of redemption.  I and all creation is hopelessly wrecked, The triune God sees that and moved by love,compassion, mercy and righteous indignation, moves to my and creation's salvation.  The Father sends and gives the Son, the Son submits,lives and dies and the Spirit convicts, guides and impresses upon me that I belong in the family of God.   
Speaking and hearing that God is worthy of my worship, that I can't because of my sin, that Jesus has made a way and is the Way and that the Spirit now empowers me to follow, is the drama of the universe, of the eternal.  At least once a week I see and I believe.
Not very profound, I know, but life-giving. 
So Yea liturgy!  Keep reminding me of the Divine Drama that I am a tiny part of.