Just sing, who cares?

As per other bloggers I read of, they have struggling with their creative outlets. I too have had a block on my creativity lately. But at camp, the directors constantly asked us adults to ask the Lord to get us out of our "box". I have never had a problem speaking or talking in front of people, but I don't sing in front of people. Which is weird because I.love.music. and I sing around my friends.."Whaaaat would you do if I sang outta tune?".. However, it is completely out of my box to sing into a mic, alone, in front of people. So many other people do it better than I do, and I make the rationalization that God just didn't give me that talent.

But He is extremely annoying sometimes about answering prayers!

So I asked God all week to tear down my box, not necessarily about singing, but put me in a place that I wasn't comfortable. So, on Friday at camp I was asked to do a devo for the whole camp. Cool, not a problem. All week long I had sung during worship and the JC in my cabin (I feel like I'm in HS talking about camp so much, but deal with it) told me constantly that I sounded good. Like everyday. What a compliment can do for our self-esteem! So I opened my devo with a prayer, and I sang the first part of it.

This prayer is very special to me because my preacher growing up sang it b-e-a-utifully (and still does).
As in so wonderfully, I look up from prayer everytime at my Mom when I'm home and say, "What a show-off." Ha-ha. It is really simple, you prob know it:

Kumbaya My Lord, Kum-ba-ya
Come by here, My Lord, Come by here
Come by here, My Lord, Come by here
Oh, Lord, Come by here

I finally had to say to myself, who cares? Who cares what it sounds like? God will love it. So when I sang it, it poured out. It was truly an amazing feeling! When we have just a little faith, what big walls will come down! It seems to me that God has awakened my faith as if I were a child again, and it is really cool.

Just sing. The sound of our voices praising God pleases Him, no matter if we hit the right notes or not.