WORSHIP.
Old English weorðscipe.
Worth-ship.
The state of worth.
To worship originally meant to recognise value.
To turn toward what we consider worthy.
Not fear.
Not grovelling.
Not blind obedience.
It was about orientation.
And worth itself comes from an old root meaning “to turn.”
What we repeatedly turn toward becomes what we call valuable.
So worship isn’t first about kneeling to something outside us.
It’s about what we honour.
What we elevate.
What we align ourself with.
Worship, at its root, is about living from a place of worth and remembering to recognise it in others.
The question isn’t whether we worship.
The question is what we’re turning toward every day.

