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    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.
 
 
Two people dancing awkwardly

    When two people try to lead, nothing feels right.
 
The movement doesn't flow with the music,
and everything is quite uncomfortable and jerky.
 
 
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  When one person realizes 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.
 
Two people dancing smoothly
 
 
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.
 
 
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    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!
 
 
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   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.

 
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    My prayer for you today is that God's blessings and mercies
be upon you and your family on this day and everyday.
 
 May you abide in Him as He abides in you.

    Dance together with God, trusting Him to lead and to guide you
through each season of your life.
 
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May He have the next dance?
 
"Thou hast turned my mourning into dancing"
Ps 30:11
 
 

Written by Jean Rhodes 

In His service, bj

Written by Billye Jeane Mercer

Note from Kay:  All over the Internet you will see this beautiful story with the author shown as "unknown".  I have been blessed to hear from Jean Rhodes, the actual author.  She doesn't have her original script but says she remembers the original to be similar to this:

“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” 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.”  

When I was thinking about the part when one leads and another follows in the dance,
I remembered when I went to my first teenage dance…
I didn’t know how to dance, and my partner was trying to lead, but I was also. 
It was a disaster … I stepped on his toes, he stepped on mine, and neither of us were keeping step with the music. 
It has always fascinated me, after I learn to dance…
how you can have two people moving together with such unity, when the one doesn’t know what the leader is going to do next. 
You come into a oneness that you sense the others movements in the nanosecond before it happens. 
We are so awesomely made.



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