Dance On

February, 2010

Know that you are healed.

Know that you are healed...

I am healed.

Am I healed?

Desperately I long for it

But am I willing to let go?

To let go of the brokenness that had defined me

Exchange pity for love

To take on a new identity

Is it really new or has it been all along?

Jesus come

I yearn for it- my heart and flesh cry out for freedom

From fear, from intimidation, from judgement-

I've been freed

To intimately experience the heart and the face of the living God

To move in tune

To hear the rhythms of His heart

And dance

To be known inside and out

To be free

I've gotten tastes of freedom- I've been freed

But I've found myself time and time again back in the shackles from which I had been freed

But no more- no more.

For me, for my generation- for others, for the generation to come- for my children, for my children's children I press on

To love, and to be loved

To trust and to enjoy being trusted

To shout aloud to contend

To take back

To lay hold

To hold on

And I will dance in celebtation of what's been done

And what is yet to come

Why not today?

So today on my walk, a route I take quite often, I noticed for the first time a hill. It was a great little hill, right off the path with a fairly steep slope that ended at the start of the lake. Looking down the hill between two trees I though, what a great hill for rolling down. Immediately the urge to roll down the hill consumed me. But not today. Why not today? The list of excuses flowed through my thoughts. NO! no excuses. I don't want to live my life with excuses and avoid what would bring joy to my heart. So I took my glasses off, set my keys and phone by a tree and rolled down that hill. Sure, the grass was wet, and I was itchy afterward, but it was GREAT!

So friends, why not today? What have you been putting off and making excuses for? What steps can you make toward that today?

I think this is so important for the times we are in. We need to take advantage of what we have while it's still before us.

"Look carefully then how you walk! Live purposefully and worthily and accurately, not as the unwise and witless, but as wise (sensible, intelligent people),

Making the very most of the time [buying up each opportunity], because the days are evil.

Therefore do not be vague and thoughtless and foolish, but understanding and firmly grasping what the will of the Lord is." (Ephesians 5:15-17, amplified)