The Dance of Life

I found a poem that made me really think. Am i letting God have control or am i trying to control everything by myself?

Dancing with God By: Elaine L. Guercio
When I meditated on the word “Guidance”,
I kept seeing “dance” at the end of the word.
I remember reading that doing God’s will is a lot like dancing.
When two people try to lead, nothing feels right.
The movement doesn’t flow with the music, and everything is quite
uncomfortable and jerky.
When one person realizes that and lets the other lead, both bodies begin to
flow with the music.
One gives gentle cues, perhaps with a nudge to the back or by pressing
lightly in one direction or another.
It’s as if two become one body, moving beautifully.
The dance takes surrender, willingness, and attentiveness from one person
and gentle guidance and skill from the other.
My eyes drew back to the word “guidance”.
When I saw “G”, I thought of God, followed by “U” and “I”.
“God”, “U” and “I” “dance”.
God, you and I dance.
As I lowered my head, I became willing to trust that I would get guidance
about my life.
Once again, I became willing to let God lead.
My prayer for you today is that God’s Blessings and mercies be upon you on
this day and every day.
May you abide in God as God abides in you.
Dance together with God, trusting God to lead and guide you through each
season of your life.

We have to allow God to be incontrol. The longer we try to stay in control the longer our life will be sloppy, messy, and unsuccessful! We will feel unfulfilled and sad. We will fail and fail again until we finally give God control.

When we finally allow God to control the dance of life, we will become happier. We will gain confidence, we will be successful, and most importantly our relationship with God will strengthen.
Two people can not be incontrol of the same dance. If we allow God to be incontrol our dance will graceful and beautiful.
Let God lead your Dance of Life! :)

He-said, she-said

When people here the word high school, one of the words that is most likely in the top ten things they think of is... Gossip. "she said.....", " she is dating so-and-so" when I think of the rumor system I think of the game telephone. You want the message to stay the same all the way through right?? It seems like no matter how hard you try the message always changes. Often, people will change it to make the message funnier, they will change the reality of what was said on purpose. Purposely making a different story than the truth right?

Rumors are similar and as I was reading John 7 in my bible I came across a verse that can relate to rumors. In John 7:18 Jesus says," A person making things up tries to make himself look good. But someone trying to honor the one who sent him sticks to the facts and doesn’t tamper with reality."

I feel this relates perfectly to gossip. The person who changes the message is trying to make themselves look better by making someone else look worse. They are hurting someone else so that atleast they look better than that other person

I felt God speaking on my heart that rumors or talking about people behind there back is something that needs to be addressed even in the church. Everyone struggles with the drama of other people's lives. We need to mind our own business and let God handle it.

:) I challenge everyone to evaluate this week how long we spend talking about other people behind their backs. I also challenge everyone to think about if they know that persons story? Are they struggling? Do they know Jesus?
How can you treat someone rudely if you don't know their story? Spend 5 minutes of your day to learn a little bit more about those people instead of talking about them behind their backs.

Have a great day! :)