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I hope you dance

  I look for my next blog topic in the world around me and this morning I found it through being awoken at 6 a.m. to the intense thunder and lightening. Rain in L.A. is always unusual and when it does rain it's not for very long. Right now it is currently sunny outside and I'm sure tomorrow it will be beach weather. I am happy for the rain but I am also happy that the sun is out so I can drive to school in safety. There are (obviously) seasons in life, some places have all four seasons in one day while others have two seasons split up in the year, but nonetheless seasons are there. Seasons are in our spiritual walk as well.
   Ecclesiastes 3:1-11 
       "For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven. A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant and a time to harvest. A time to kill and a time to heal. A time to tear down and a time to build up. A time to cry and a time to laugh. A time to grieve and a time to dance. A time to scatter stones and a time to gather stones. A time to embrace and a time to turn away. A time to search and a time to quit searching. A time to keep and a time to throw away. A time to tear and a time to mend. A time to be quiet and a time to speak. A time to love and a time to hate. A time for war and a time for peace. What do people really get for all their hardwork? I have seen the burden God has placed on us all. Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God's work from beginning to end."
  So if you couldn't tell from the verse I used... there is a time for everything. "How can I dance in my seasons of rain and still praise God the way I do during my seasons of sunshine?" Well first, you will have seasons of hardship but you must remember who is in charge. You will never fully understand what Christ is doing or when your next season will come but that's okay. We are not meant to know His full plan for us. 
  When it comes to your life plan and the seasons you go through remember Jeremiah 29:11-13 "'For I know the plans I have for you,'" says the Lord. 'They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. In those days when you pray, I will listen. If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me."
  You may not dance in the rain the way you dance in the sunshine but never stop seeking Christ. You find Him working in E V E R Y season. We need rain for a harvest to grow. We need sunshine for the harvest to grow. Each season is a season of growth and you should never stop seeking Christ because He is the one who has your life planned out for you. Never stop growing and never stop dancing... no matter what the weather is.



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