“Daring to Dance with God”

JEFF Walling in his book says: “And what is it like to dance with God?  Dancing with God is allowing Him to take our breath away as He whirls us through the dark and light places that life leads us. It is relaxing into His embrace and trusting fully in His strong arms.  It is releasing the power of the Spirit within us to give us joy beyond measure.  It is revelling in the unexpected and celebrating the divine surprise that is each new day.  It is rejoicing out loud at the grace and beauty God provides and ignoring the calls of the crowd to sit down and quit grinning.  But above all else, dancing with God is learning to let go.” 

What do we need to let go of?

Let go of guilt – Guilt has an important function- to alert us when we have ‘missed the mark’, when we have hurt someone, when we have been untrue to ourselves….

But guilt is not meant to be a permanent condition…let guilt do its role and then…let go of guilt!

Let go of resentment - resentment is like eating something that really disagrees with you and just can’t digest!  But how to let go?  It’s almost like removing a thorn stuck in our flesh, we have to consider it; where it came from, what it is doing to us and how do we get rid of it.

Let go of anger – The bible tells us “be angry but sin not”. That is not easy. When we are really angry, we actually don’t care if we are sinning.  It’s like an exploding volcano! However, anger has a function. Again, inner dialogue can be helpful…we can ask ourselves “Why am I so angry?”   Perhaps our anger is alerting ourselves to something that needs to stop, or to be put right. Perhaps it is a wound from the past that has been prodded. Perhaps it is biological- a physical issue expressing itself in anger.

In essence, let these negative emotions, events, hurts, disappointments be recognized and then released so that we can be free to Dance with God….