One of the images that really resonates with me these days is the notion of our relationship with God being like a dance. Perhaps like the first dance of a newly married couple or the dance of bride with her father, or the joyful dance of a people in worship, or a tribal dance handed down, preserved, and stylized from generation to generation.
Dancing with God to the rhythms of life. Not alone, but together. Click the photos below to see God dancing!
A few months ago, ROJ joined a family dancing with God and on their way to India. The Borde’s (Jon, Swati, and Neil) quickly became friends, co-missionaries, and dance partners. Jon and Jodie Skyberg hosted a concert in their home to lift them up and we sent them on their way with our blessing and prayers and some money to purchase shoes for kids in our global neighborhood. The shoes worn by children in India pictured above are the fruit of a concert on a backyard patio in Lakeville! Dancin' shoes indeed!
I posted about our story with the Bordes a couple of times and one of the posts was reworked into an article for a congregational newsletter and a synod publication (July).
Our transglobal dance with Jon, Swati, and Neil continues as we support them in prayer and presence from halfway around the world. Our God is an amazing dance partner who meets us and invites us to dance: in a park in Prior Lake, around a swimming pool, at picnics in north Mpls, in the creating of art and community, with children’s hands in a garden, and in the lives of children living in orphanages in India.
Big arms. A gentle lead. Graceful steps.
Feel the rhythm.
Follow the lead.
Dance-
Your
Way
Home.
thoughts on living into the missio dei
this blog
Use what you find here as you travel onward in the journey of a missional life of engaging the world for Christ. My hope is that somehow in the middle of these ramblings, Jesus would find you in a new way; or perhaps, that through these words He may provide to you a trail marking that would send you in a direction that would lead you always to Him.
Poke around.
Seek Him here.
Allow Him to find you here.
Follow him as he leads you away from here.
Know that we all come to Him from different directions and with varying trail trekking experience. We ALL come with tattered maps, poor vision, faltering ears, and human stubbornness thinking that we know better than Him the paths we should walk.
But we listen to His voice.
As He sends us out.
And as He calls us home.
The posts that are marked with an * in the heading indicate that this is either a point from a Saturday evening teaching at River of Joy or an expansion, a clarification, or rethinking of the area we were exploring. Godspeed as you travel onward.
Poke around.
Seek Him here.
Allow Him to find you here.
Follow him as he leads you away from here.
Know that we all come to Him from different directions and with varying trail trekking experience. We ALL come with tattered maps, poor vision, faltering ears, and human stubbornness thinking that we know better than Him the paths we should walk.
But we listen to His voice.
As He sends us out.
And as He calls us home.
The posts that are marked with an * in the heading indicate that this is either a point from a Saturday evening teaching at River of Joy or an expansion, a clarification, or rethinking of the area we were exploring. Godspeed as you travel onward.
about me
- steve bonesho
- lakeville, mn
- I am a follower of Jesus Christ called to lead a new faith community on it's missional journey of discovering and becoming what God intends us to be.
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