The Dance part 5
We dance because there's a song in our heart. A love song between a Father and His Son. A love song between the Lamb and His wife. We live because He lives in and through and as us. Life's a dance, we learn as we go. The Holy Spirit leads and guides us into all truth--the truth that God loves us. And out of that truth we love each other. That's the New Commandment that Jesus gave: Love one another as He loves you. That's why we're here. We're here to be loved and to love each other with that same love. But the crazy thing about love is that it doesn't take just one form. People love differently and people receive love differently. People dance differently, if I can say it that way. Because there's not right or wrong way to dance. This idea we have that life has to look like "this," and we have to get from point A to point B by going through "these" steps... is ridiculous. Life isn't for jumping through hoops. Life is for living. And to live is to love. To love is to live. If we could stop putting expectations on ourselves and on each other I truly believe that we could begin to enjoy the journey. We could enjoy the dance. Dancing is supposed to be fun, isn't it? Life isn't supposed to be hard. (And I'm not saying we don't have to work hard sometimes. There's a difference between working hard in order to get something, and working hard because we have something. The former is works and labor and the latter is rest.) I understand that if you know the steps to the dance... if you practice dancing... then you can do it "right." But I also understand that "right" for me might be "wrong" for you. And I also understand that when you just let go and do what's in your heart, it's a beautiful thing. I've never felt more alive then when I was writing my first Jesus book. Because that thing inside me that makes me... me... was coming out to the glory of my Father. I wasn't doing it FOR Him, per se, but I was doing it WITH Him. He was doing it IN me, and THROUGH me, and as me. I took my body and presented it as a living sacrifice and that book (Identity Crisis) poured out of me in two weeks. It was a lot of work, but it was effortless. And it's one of the things that I'm the most proud of in my life. Not because I can say, "Look what I did," but because I did something worth looking at. I created something (and I'm fixing to do a Rant series about creation here in a minute) that--hopefully--will help people. It was God working in me both to will and to do of His good pleasure. It was the song in my heart that caused me to dance. And when you find that perfect song--when who you are manifests in what you do... manifests in love in that special way that only you can love--that's abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life. That's the relationship between the God who is love and the human race that He created in order TO love. So. Find your song. And don't be afraid to dance. Don't be afraid to make a mistake, because life's a dance... you learn as you go.