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Dance with Me

There is something about dancing.  It is intimate and requires a trust.  I had heard years ago from a dance instructor that when single, divorced women come to take ballroom dancing lessons that it is usually very hard for them to trust the male partner they are matched up with.  She had witnessed a lot of tears and sadness as these women danced and learned to trust again.  I found that fact fascinating and as I have thought about it since I have heard it I see how it makes so much sense.  In dancing you are in each other's space and we Americans have a pretty wide circumference to our personal space.  It's about 3 feet all around.  Dancing requires you to get within inches of each other.  That nearness does require a level of trust, comfort, and intimacy. 

God invites us, daily, to dance with him.  He wants to get close, he wants us to trust him, he wants to go throughout each day in sync.  When we dance with him we are communicating that we trust him and he is communicating that we are worthy of being near to.  Some of us don't believe we are worthy of being close to and God wants each of to know that our worth is priceless because of him. 

So he asks, daily, will you dance with me?  The true lover of your soul. 

Dance with Me

*Thanks to one of my bestie's Emilie for shooting this song my way!!  :) 

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