Sing and Dance.

When you take a look at your life. Take the last month perhaps. Does it look like “singing and dancing” to you?

Now this isn’t a question that is supposed to shame anyone into feeling bad about a lack of thematic “singing and dancing” throughout their lives, but rather a challenge and encouragement! Now I don’t mean necessarily physically singing and dancing, but it could be! But I mean more so, a theme, a way of life that is like singing and dancing. A joy, a declaration, uplifting people, places, situations, a heart of thanksgiving, praise, and so on…

I recently was running my usual park path in downtown Kitchener, Victoria Park, and I was thinking about some challenges that I wanted to overcome. And this song by Hillsong came on shuffle, “Echo’s”. And the lyrics hit me hard.

“We will sing, we will dance, until the earth reflects the heavens.”

Wow.

When we face an obstacle or a trial, we often turn to telling other people how they can improve, or what they are doing wrong, or we start trying to course correct people, or try to strive to figure things our on our own…

But in fact, the response to these trials, obstacles and challenges, the solution, is really found in: SINGING, DANCING. Illustratively meaning to stay joyful, remain faithful to loving God and others, proclaim words of belief and not doubt, positivity and not negativity, uplift and not criticism… UNTIL, the earth, and our situations actually begin to reflect HEAVEN!

It totally makes sense, you don’t turn a dark room light by telling it that it’s dark, you bring light in.

Bring light into your situations, your challenges, by being light, by singing, by dancing! And watch the earth start to reflect the Heavens!

Here’s the full song for a listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFBuh72C2zo

XOXO

Ashley