When You Walk Through The Room

I've been reading a great book over the last two weeks. ONE STEP CLOSER: Why U2 Matters To Those Seeking God, by Christian Scharen. Last night as I was reading, this exerpt really jumped out to me:

... Yet U2 sees how they are part of something much bigger, something that they contribute to but does not come from them. Their embrace of the fact that, despite their shortcomings, they know that the gift of God's blessing and mercy lives in them, heals more, touches more, and inspires more than they could ever hope to do on their own. It is, in a way, the biggest contradiction of all that a rock and roll band understands itself as wrapped up in a conspiracy with the God of heaven and earth. Yet that's U2. Larry: "If we thought it was all about us, it would f**k us up. Something happens, but it is not something we make happen. It only happens when God walks through the room."
This is something that every one of us in the Creative Arts areas, and also in the position of providing and creating and shaping corporate environments for worship need to understand. We can do what we can do, but at some point we have to stand back and let God walk through the room.