This is real to me

This is real to me, I can't get that statement out of my head.  Almost a month ago I sat in church I heard what I had been feeling described better than I could have ever put it into words.  Pastor Bennett was going through the different ways that we connect to God and was talking about how he connects and he said I'm up here moving, have my hands raised in praise "This is real to me".  And there it was, what I had been feeling but had been unable to put into words.  All of this was now real to me.  Before I received Christ as my Lord and Savior, going to church was just something that was expected, I didn't really "get" anything out of it.   When we first came to the Church at Polaris  I didn't care for the music, every week I would prefer to have gotten there at the very end of the music, just in time to hear the message but my wife really liked the music so we usually arrived somewhere in the middle.  However, after I received Christ as my Lord and Savior, I could not get enough of, the music,  reading the Bible, being in a small group, going to Church.  During service I sing, raise my hands in praise and sometimes get so choked up with emotion that sometimes I even cry.  It has been just over 7 months since I hit bottom, since I turned to God and asked Jesus to be my Lord and Savior and I still look forward to Sunday.  It is said that when you are saved, you become a new creation in Christ, that the old is gone.  Every day I live the proof of that statement, and now, I can also say that this is "real" to me as well.