I Love Blogging

I do. Mock me if you want. I love feeling in community with people around the world who share similar questions and struggles with me and who ruminate on them with much more wisdom and eloquence than me! So, here are 2 things I found in the bloggie-world this week.

1. I found this beautiful analogy on Relevant Magazine's blog, and I thought it was so clearly and truthfully described. And, if you know me, I'm slightly obsessed with dancing... so, TADA. My favorite bloggie-world read of the week. 

"I finished reading Through Painted Deserts on our honeymoon and I quickly remembered why I love Donald Miller’s writing so much. His style is the perfect blend of adventure and spiritual musings, written in such a down-to-earth, authentic voice. One quote in particular stood out to me as I read on the beach in Cancun: "Life is a dance toward God, I begin to think. And the dance is not so graceful as we might want. While we glide and swing our practiced sway, God crowds our feet, bumps our toes, and scuffs our shoes. So we learn to dance with the One who made us. And it is a difficult dance to learn, because its steps are foreign." Poetic and eloquently put, such a beautiful, accurate depiction of what happens when God interacts with us. It reminds me of another quote that relates our walk with God to dancing, from a book I read last summer, Son of Hamas by Mosab Hassan Yousef: “Pray for me, that I will grow in my faith and that I won’t step on too many toes as I learn to dance with the Bridegroom.” Earlier this year, my wife (fiance at the time) Ellie and I took a few dance lessons and I learned first hand that dancing is no easy task, especially when you do not know the steps. The dancing we do with God is the most difficult of all, because it is His dance and the steps are advanced and unfamiliar to us. We must not be discouraged by this fact however. Proverbs 20:24 says: “A man’s steps are directed by the Lord. How then can anyone understand his own way?” So then, life is a dance toward God, with the Bridegroom (Jesus) and we don’t even know the steps. Sounds hopeless, doesn’t it? Professional dancers will tell you, however, that as long as the man knows the steps and has a solid figure, the woman will be able to follow with ease. So what does that mean for our dance with God? It means that we no longer need to be discouraged and confused when life throws us a curve ball, nor do we need to fall prey to the worldly pressures that tell us we need to have everything figured out, because we have a perfect and loving God who knows every step of the dance and has a figure more solid than any substance we know."

2. I found this awesome video on another blog, but it's also on youtube. Some highschool kid wrote and filmed this. So clever. I especially love the part about "my fridge is too full" and how we get annoyed when we run out of fridge space. Seriously? I just realized how ridiculous that is that I grow frustrated from having TOO MUCH FOOD. Thanks random high school kid for showing me the light. (PS I'm so proud of myself for remembering how to embed a video. Seriously, I don't think you get the depths of my technology-challenged nature.)