I do love me some dancing but usually it is on a quiet street or when I am all alone. Ok -not always true. Sometimes it's in the middle of the old city in Jerusalem or a Christmas market in Vienna or on the Las Vegas strip and often times it's with my arms stretched out wide, completely oblivious to all that is going on around me. How about you? When do you enjoy dancing? Where is your favorite place to dance? What is your favorite type of dance?
Today I want to challenge you to participate in a different type of dance. One I hope you will commit to and challenge yourself with over the coming weeks.
Years ago, almost seems like a different lifetime ago, I used to mentor high school young ladies. It was one of the most rewarding and fulfilling things I have done in my life. During one season of our mentoring/bible studies, I encouraged the young ladies to read this book by Connie Neal "Dancing in the Arms of God: Discover Your Cinderella Story." This book impacted some young ladies in ways I have seen, and in some ways I have yet to see - but it changed lives. I hoping it will do the same today all of the globe as it did so many years ago in a far away land called San Diego.
Are you waiting for your Prince or Princess? Are you stressed about being single your whole life? Being single AGAIN? Never having children? Being an "old" parent? Do you have thoughts like: Will anyone love me? Am I worthy of love? This just might the book for you. Can I tell you a secret? I've read this book at least 4 times and this book is still for me. Every once in a while I lose focus, I lose direction. I ask God some hard questions, but questions I've already asked and received answers for several times (okay, maybe several hundred times). Sometimes...I'm just plain stubborn and I want to dig my heels in and argue with God and say I'm not dancing tonight.
He wants to invite you to the dance of your life. He wants to be your date in the dance called "life". He wants to satisfy the deepest longings in your soul, and fill your sadness with joy. He wants to bring you out of your loneliness and despair and give you a spirit of happiness. He wants you to find your sole contentment in Him, and Him alone. Only then will you find that you don't need someone else to complete you, to fill that void - because it won't be there anymore. He wants to fill that hole in your heart, if you will let him. But guess what? He's not going to drag you to the dance. He's not going to beg you to go to the dance with him. He's going to wait patiently, until you're ready because He wants you to come, excitedly; with expectation that great things are going to happen. Here's the kicker - you don't even have to put on your finest gown/suit or get your hair and makeup done. You don't have to have the sparkliest jewelry or the most expensive shoes; He wants you to come as you are, whatever that looks like today. And today...you may look different than tomorrow, and ever more different the next day. But He doesn't care because He will trade your ashes for beauty and when He's done - you'll be the most beautiful prince/princess in the room.
Journey with me! Come see what this dance in the arms of God is all about. I want to experience each chapter with you. Whether there are 10 of you, or only 1...Jesus wants to speak to you. He wants to invite you to the dance. Will you accept?
I've started from the beginning again and I hope some of you folks out in blog land will download this book and join me. I want your thoughts, your raw emotions, your questions, your discoveries. Let's share our experiences together and through those experiences draw nearer to Jesus.
WARNING: The journey might be painful, it might be exhilarating, it might be life-changing, or it might just be life-saving. I promise you one thing - if you journey with me through this book, you will not be the same person than you were before you began.
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