Praise and Worship

I've been doing a lot of thinking about praise and worship for the last few days. Stuck in my bed for most of the last two weeks, I have begun to miss my daily guitar time with the Lord. I can't sing, my voice is shot, and my nose has been running nonstop and I have developed a terrible cough. It has been impossible for me to worship with singing. So this got me thinking. What other ways are there to worship God? How do you worship if you can't sing? My whole being depends upon the worship of my God. My peace comes from it.
I have always thought of praise and worship as one entity, ("P and W"). I began to realize that there is a difference. Praise is the verbal outpouring of our love for our God, whether in word or in song. Worship encompasses praise but is much much more than just a verbal word or song.
I began to think about those who could not worship with praise. Not just temporarily, like me, but people who could not sing EVER. People who are sick, or elderly, or handicapped. How do they worship the Lord? People like Corrie ten Boom, who was silenced by strokes the last five years of her life. The glory of God surrounded her right up until the day of her death, yet she could not speak a word, she couldn't talk, she couldn't write or communicate in any way.

I began to think I was on to something. I asked God to show me how to worship not just in singing and praising Him but in every single way possible. As the words left my mouth I remembered a verse from Proverbs, "In all your ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct your paths." (chap 3 vs 6)
I began to realize that the act of worship can be performed in every single thing you do. Your whole life can be an act of worship. You can acknowledge (and thus worship) simply by telling him Thank You for the things he has blessed you with. You perform an act of worship every single time you hear his voice directing you which way to go when a decision has to be made, and following his voice. You worship every single time you tell your kids a Bible story. Setting a Godly example for your kids is an act of worship. Even the smallest things, such as resisting the urge to watch that funny (but unGodly) tv show that you like so much is an act of worship because you are acknowledging that He has no part in that, and so you should not either.
Worship is not simply doing these things, however, it is the LONGING inside to please God's heart. You can do all of these things mentioned above mechanically and there is no worship involved. But when you follow that burning desire in your heart to acknowledge Him in ALL your ways, not just with your voice, then when your voice is gone His peace will still be with you.