A Time To Dance

February promotes a lot of romance. You will see more advertisements about flowers and candy, couples dancing or getting married. There seems to be love in the air. But it isn't that way for everyone. I remember, before I got married, how dreadful Valentine's Day was and I just wanted to get through it and get past it. It seemed to really emphasize the loneliness I felt and I hated feeling lonely. Now, it has become a meaningful part in our marriage. No, we don't focus on Valentine's Day as the only day we can openly express our love for one another. Every day can be Valentine's Day! I am thankful for the man God brought into my life and I wouldn't trade him for anything. He is my best friend. He knows me better than anyone and still loves me anyway. That's saying something!
But speaking of dancing a moment ago, I thought of that scripture in Ecclesiastes that says there is a "time to dance". There are other things listed in that chapter, such as a time to mourn, a time to weep, a time for sewing and a time to rend, and so on. Look it up, the third chapter. We can identify with most, if not all, of the 'times' listed. Dancing implies relief from heavy burdens, joy that cannot be contained, excitement that can't be hid, feelings that NEED to be expressed! But for some reason, it's one of the hardest things I have ever had to do. Dance. This is NOT a sad story, if I may say, but to get to the meat of the matter (dancing), I must say first that the past two to three years have been some of the hardest years of my life. I won't go into all the trouble and hurts and pain and so on, for there's too much to tell anyway. But honestly, I can't think of ONE time that I have felt like dancing in the last two years. It's sad, but I feel like I haven't had much to let loose and dance about in those two long years. I don't mean this for a hard up story, for that is NOT what it is. But we all go through times in which it's the hardest thing to do. Let go of troubles, hurts, pains, sorrows, longings, despair, put it all aside, and for our hearts' sake, just DANCE. Our human nature demands that we have a REASON to dance, but there comes a time in our spiritual journey where we need to DANCE on faith! We may not have received the promise, but DANCE anyway, knowing that God is in control and it will NOT always be this way. It didn't come to stay, it came to pass. I love that saying. I don't always understand the 'seasons' of life, why some seasons seem to take forever to end, but the good news is, THEY DO END. We wonder if we will make it until the end happens, but stop for a moment and realize, Solomon said there will be a time to dance and you can count on it. We are so quick to count on the bad, the time to weep, mourn, die, break down, time to lose, time of hate, time of war, and so on. They come, but so do the others. The time to heal, the time to be born, time to build up, time to laugh, a time of peace, a TIME TO DANCE. This all brings this scripture to my mind, ALL THINGS work TOGETHER for GOOD to them that love God, who are the CALLED according to HIS purpose. Not only will the bad happen in our lives, but the GOOD happen. So if you are doubting you will ever dance again, just know that seasons do come and go, the good AND the bad. If you are mourning now, hold on.
YOU WILL DANCE AGAIN.