Sometimes It's a Dance

Tuesday will be May 1st! The school year at Bethel is almost over and I still can't believe it. It seems it was only a bit ago that my friend Janelle and I drove into Redding in the wee hours of the morning looking for a place to stay.

Now, school's graduation is in a couple weeks and you can feel the air filled with expectation and excitement over what life will bring for all of those who did the School of Supernatural. Will they do a second year? what will summer look like? Where will I live? In many ways I stand on the sidelines of that, I get to see it from the outside, because my decision is so set: I'm coming back to finish what I started! Translating is no easy task, but it's one that needs to be done. This first "school year" here at Bethel helped me develop the foundations for the work that we've been doing and I've learned so much! I don't mean just work wise, tho' that's been a great field of new challenges as well; but I mean I've learned about God's heart and what some truths really look like. I'm still in such awe at His Manifested Presence in this place and about everything He's brought together for me this year.

I by no means have it together, but I'm loving where it's all going. Exactly a year ago I was contemplating coming here, and it all looked so big and almost inconceivable, could it be?? Could I really make it out here, was that my calling? My plans had been so different, and yet coming to Redding to break language barriers and learn from the culture had been unspoken dreams that I had kept in my heart. Everything
seemed to be aligning so... well, miraculously! Then I came across this verse in Proverbs 16:9, "In their hearts humans plan their course, but the LORD establishes their steps" and it all made sense.

Sometimes it's a Dance; let Him lead! ;)

My amazing Father was establishing my steps and I followed! I recently heard Paul Manwaring add this to it, and it totally made sense: sometimes, those steps are a dance. Exactly! With God there are times to move forward, even times to run, times to be still... and sometimes, the steps He establishes are a lovely waltz, or a joyful salsa! That's were I'm at today, still feeling much like He's led every step of the way, but this year it's been more like a grace-full rhythmic, sweet romantic dance!