Comments on: Go Down Dancing http://itakejoy.wordpress.com Never, Never, Never Stop Dancing! Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:05:15 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: realworldmartha http://itakejoy.wordpress.com/go-down-dancing/#comment-158 realworldmartha Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:38:44 +0000 http://itakejoy.wordpress.com/go-down-dancing/#comment-158 I enjoyed reading your blog today! Thanks for the wonderful words. What a great way to start the day! Blessings, Debbie aka The Real World Martha I enjoyed reading your blog today! Thanks for the wonderful words. What a great way to start the day!
Blessings,
Debbie aka The Real World Martha

]]> By: patty http://itakejoy.wordpress.com/go-down-dancing/#comment-81 patty Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:33:23 +0000 http://itakejoy.wordpress.com/go-down-dancing/#comment-81 Sally, Thank you for expressing your joy so clearly. I am beginning to come out of the darkness of losing a child 2 years ago and I so long to walk in joy again! I thank God he led me to your blog today. I can dance again! And I will dance again! Thank you... Sally,
Thank you for expressing your joy so clearly. I am beginning to come out of the darkness of losing a child 2 years ago and I so long to walk in joy again! I thank God he led me to your blog today. I can dance again! And I will dance again! Thank you…

]]> By: Carmen Hendrix http://itakejoy.wordpress.com/go-down-dancing/#comment-59 Carmen Hendrix Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:04:34 +0000 http://itakejoy.wordpress.com/go-down-dancing/#comment-59 Thank you Sally for loving our Lord so infectiously. Your words of love and faith and encouragement have strengthened me today. I find myself in a place in my life where I need to glory in my Lord and live with the life everlasting. Praise God for His Spirit at work in all of us. It is a privaledge to Honor the work of His son Jesus by living a joyfilled life! Amen! Thank you Sally for loving our Lord so infectiously. Your words of love and faith and encouragement have strengthened me today. I find myself in a place in my life where I need to glory in my Lord and live with the life everlasting. Praise God for His Spirit at work in all of us. It is a privaledge to Honor the work of His son Jesus by living a joyfilled life! Amen!

]]> By: Sarah Carpenter http://itakejoy.wordpress.com/go-down-dancing/#comment-55 Sarah Carpenter Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:31:14 +0000 http://itakejoy.wordpress.com/go-down-dancing/#comment-55 Sally ... Your blog is excellent and encouraging. Keep writing as God shines through ... Love your story about dancing with your Father ... thought you might appeciate the thoughts below from one of my blogs http://carpentershand.blogspot.com/2007/02/lessons-from-dead-and-dying-2-focus.html Sometimes we struggle to find our way through it all and make sense of it. I had the most wonderful freeing revelation a couple of months ago that has just stayed with me. I was reading in Jn 14:6 where Jesus says he is the Way, Truth and Life. Thinking of Jesus as the way I had my normal thought of a narrow path with Jesus pointing along the way to travel (I think influenced by a picture I saw when I was 10). Anyway the thought came to me that Jesus is not the guide on the way … he said he IS the way. So then this means that he is the path. All I have to do is put my feet on him – the path. This made me think of a friend’s little girl. She loves to dance on her Mum or Dad’s feet. She doesn’t know how to dance … she doesn’t know the steps but it doesn’t matter because all she does is put her feet on theirs, holds on … looks up and off they go … dancing, whirling, twirling, spinning in a glorious celebration of the moment. This is what God would have us to do. It doesn’t matter that we don’t know the steps or the way through. It doesn’t matter that we don’t know the path ahead. We just need to put our feet on his … take his hands … look up at his face and laugh … be recklessly abandoned to him. His grace is sufficient and HIS hands and feet are sure. Sally …

Your blog is excellent and encouraging. Keep writing as God shines through …

Love your story about dancing with your Father …
thought you might appeciate the thoughts below from one of my blogs
http://carpentershand.blogspot.com/2007/02/lessons-from-dead-and-dying-2-focus.html

Sometimes we struggle to find our way through it all and make sense of it. I had the most wonderful freeing revelation a couple of months ago that has just stayed with me. I was reading in Jn 14:6 where Jesus says he is the Way, Truth and Life. Thinking of Jesus as the way I had my normal thought of a narrow path with Jesus pointing along the way to travel (I think influenced by a picture I saw when I was 10). Anyway the thought came to me that Jesus is not the guide on the way … he said he IS the way. So then this means that he is the path. All I have to do is put my feet on him – the path. This made me think of a friend’s little girl. She loves to dance on her Mum or Dad’s feet. She doesn’t know how to dance … she doesn’t know the steps but it doesn’t matter because all she does is put her feet on theirs, holds on … looks up and off they go … dancing, whirling, twirling, spinning in a glorious celebration of the moment.

This is what God would have us to do. It doesn’t matter that we don’t know the steps or the way through. It doesn’t matter that we don’t know the path ahead. We just need to put our feet on his … take his hands … look up at his face and laugh … be recklessly abandoned to him. His grace is sufficient and HIS hands and feet are sure.

]]> By: sharon reiss http://itakejoy.wordpress.com/go-down-dancing/#comment-32 sharon reiss Wed, 06 Jun 2007 04:26:30 +0000 http://itakejoy.wordpress.com/go-down-dancing/#comment-32 Thank you, Sally, for encouraging me! As a mother of 5 who seems to be fighting her hormones, it can be easy to be discouraged. And yet, the last few months, I have clung to the verse, "The joy of the LORD is your strength." His joy, in me, makes me able to praise Him, and strengthens me for the tasks of loving my family. And miraculously when I choose joy and trust Him, he opens my heart to all the beauty around me in those he's put in my life. I say, Amen! to what you have written. Keep boldly celebrating! Your sister in Christ, Sharon Thank you, Sally, for encouraging me! As a mother of 5 who seems to be fighting her hormones, it can be easy to be discouraged. And yet, the last few months, I have clung to the verse, “The joy of the LORD is your strength.” His joy, in me, makes me able to praise Him, and strengthens me for the tasks of loving my family. And miraculously when I choose joy and trust Him, he opens my heart to all the beauty around me in those he’s put in my life. I say, Amen! to what you have written. Keep boldly celebrating!
Your sister in Christ,
Sharon

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