Dance it Around Town!

When looking around at all the wonderful lives that have blessed my own there is a constant reminder of how different my life is and was. These differences used to enrage, frustrate and complicate situations to no end. Comparisons of lives always seemed to give others a longer stick, better everything, yet now praising the Lord is all the comes to mind.

There is no doubt life has played a little differently as compared with others, but looking back they were all (mostly all good decisions). Example: Far before any of my friends started to even think about girls they entered my domain, and never did action follow. Sometimes regret entered as a result, however if response had ensued to date any of these females the world definitely would have blotted out much of my foundation.

Something that God has blessed this humble life of mine with is a truly awesome foundation. Two Loving parents, a wonderful house, strong community, great education, siblings and dog that make up this God dipped life I've lived for the past 18 years. Perhaps I wasn't always a Christian, but like my parents told me "the word of God was put into your heart at a young age and you can't ignore it once you've heard it" (it was a summation really)

Looking back having a girlfriend seemed like such a big deal, and so did a lot of other things. Yet it was a complete waste of time for most of those people, caused a lot of emotional scarring or pain, led to drama, divisions among friends and most of all put something before God that should never have been (not all cases but a majority).

God continues to show how being a virgin of so many things has really allowed him to shine through in those areas. Not to say having a girlfriend, for example, is by any means a bad thing, but realize that God recognizes the sacrifice of allowing him into such an intimate position. When trust conquered desire He was given room to work, and side-stepped a host of mistakes.

At the time it was merely following family rules or thinking things through logically, but now it is consciously making the decision, knowing why and thanking the Lord for his Love and Grace.

All our lives are so blessed. It's a matter of seeing it. Like Balaam's donkey that wouldn't move past the angel in the old testament, so Balaam beat his donkey repeatedly. Then the donkey accidentally steps on his foot, breaking it, and gets an even worse beating. At the end of the pummeling of this poor creature balaam looks up sees the angel of the Lord with a sword and knows it would have killed him if not for the donkey.

Those things that I wanted so badly would have killed me, but maybe I just got off with a broken toe or something.

That's why I Dance it Around Town!