Dance Lightly

March 13

Dance lightly with life. Anonymous

Four simple words that can transform this minute, this hour, this day, and all our tomorrows! Sometimes we allow life to hold us too tightly as we dance. We take every word spoken to us, every glance shot our way, with a degree of seriousness they do not deserve. If we could adopt the policy of the duck, who allows the water in which he's engulfed to simply roll off him, we, like this wise little creature, would not be drowning in our circumstances!

The people, the things that seem negative and unmanageable are so because we give too much power to them. We allow them to be like tentacles of an encompassing monster that grasp us tightly and suffocate the hope, the truth, the peace, the joy, the love--right out of us! They don't deserve to have that kind of destructive hold on us! They don't deserve any hold on us at all!

What they deserve is to be wrested from us and cast into the ash bin of life! That's the place for any negativity—such things as despair, hopelessness, depression frustration, self-denigration, faithlessness—all these things are arms of the monster-octopus of trouble that the evil one uses to grasp God's people and squeeze the faith and the life out of them. Indeed, he knows that if he can choke our faith, he increases the strength of all the things he uses to hold us and suffocate us!

In order to help the Lord effect our deliverance, we must indeed, 'dance lightly with life.' We must require ourselves to let go of the trials that have us bound, for in our releasing them, half the strength of their grip is gone! They can't grasp us nearly so tightly on their own as they can when we cling to them! Dance lightly with them...and soon they will no longer be our dancing partner!

When we have allowed Him to approach us, our NEW PARTNER—ONE who has love in His eyes, ONE who has gentleness in His hands, ONE who will hold us tenderly to HIS heart and whisper kindly into our ear, “Come to Me, all you who are weary, and I will give you rest,” Matthew 11:28—will dance with us! If we follow His lead, allow Him to dance through the years and decades of time with us, His promise is that we shall also dance together through a glorious eternity."