Dance to the Music

2/26/09 Dance to the Music
John Milton said, “Those who dance were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.” Sometimes I think people must think that about me, (akin to denial) when they see that I am trusting the Lord in all this and even equating this "season of life" as one of dancing with Him. They don’t know that He has put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God.(Psa.40: 3)

Many can’t hear the song because they have not been where I am---very few people have, but many have their own song, the one the Lord has given them, to help with their struggle/hard place/burden. Others can’t hear His music at all because they are too busy with pursuing life according to self---they can’t block out the “ME” cacophony that rings in their ears. (I should have, if only I could, why me, poor me) Others can’t be still long enough to even try and listen---such busyness can lead to bottoming out, certainly not to dancing. T. S. Eliot puts it this way, “In the stillness is dancing.” If your not dancing/living what you believe, it’s just religious talk.
To dance, you need to hear the music. Listen!

Needless to say the Jesus Calling passage this morning had the words dancing off the page right into my heart.
“I’m leading you step by step, through your life.”---sounds like a dance to me. I’m just glad that I’m being led in this dance by the One who prepared the steps for me. “Hold my hand in trusting dependence…..” when it’s a couple’s dance you can lose the rhythm and flow when you dance independently of you partner. But dependence on the One who leads is “how it should be”---a little poetic license here---it’s a depenDANCE! It might be a misspelling but it makes my point because I am dependent on Him in this macDANCE. I can’t predict the future, I just have to “Trust the Lord to show (Dotsy) the next step forward, and the one after that, and the one after that.” I dare not wait til MAC is gone to start living----that’s like waiting for the storms of life to pass---I need to learn to dance in the rain----and sing my “new song.”