Take me to church

This could sound preachy.
I think that, almost unconditionally, the internet is a bad place to start a discussion about religion. But this needs to be said, for myself.
I had a long day on Sunday, and after getting home from a long shift at work, I was looking forward to sleeping and chowing down on whatever salad I had in the fridge. But as I sat, post shower, at my laptop, I began to think. It's 5pm on a Sunday...what if...what if I went to church?
I got the most insane butterflies, and this bewildered me. Why would I get nervous about something like that? Does that even make any sense? So instead of shrugging it off, and I followed the butterflies and clobbered a search into google. The reaping of said search introduced me to a next generation church that was 1.6 miles away. So with 40 minutes until the 6:30pm service, I followed my feet and found my way.
I've been to church before. I was in a church choir for 10 years, but there wasn't a religious connection to it. It was more of just a thing that I did a few times a week. I went to a few concerts with a dear friend of mine, Israel, and felt something but not enough to get me to go back.
But church on Sunday was different. I felt so at home, so at peace and so full of light. I went to prayer and talked through a girl who also attends the church and we prayed together. Clearly it's a very personal thing, but I've been  having some dark days recently, and I felt so whole after praying.
The sermon was about patience. Even the bible (1 Corinthians 13:4-7) outright states "Love is patient."
That's it! Right there. On the subject of love, an infinite, confusing, beautiful and wonderful thing- the first thing that is written in those letters on the subject of love is that it. is. patient.
That we should be patient with the weak, the discouraged and the cruel- just with everyone. How cool is that?
And since then, when I've felt myself losing patience, I remember. And I am patient. It's still a work in progress, but I feel as though, for the first time in a very long time, I'm getting somewhere.
My days, like my feet and heart, feel so much lighter.