Leading the Dance

  • by Trish Berg
  • February 11, 2014
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Struggling with loads of laundry, clutter in the kitchen and chaos in your life? Stress can easily steal our joy. Trish Berg reminds us to simplify the small stuff and find Joy in the Journey. I am not a good follower. I like to lead. Just ask anyone who knows me and they will tell you that I am a leader, a mentor and plan-maker. I love it when plans that I carefully make come to fruition. I like planning, making lists and most certainly have my own agenda. Always. But I have also learned that I can’t always lead, and though I wish I could, I also know that following can be as rewarding as leading, when you follow the right person. But following comes with trust. I can’t follow someone whom I don’t trust. In fact, I find it difficult to follow people that I do trust. But I am learning both how to trust and how to follow. How to let others lead in my life and to walk where they lead. I am especially learning to let God lead. Trusting God is like dancing. He boldly takes my hand as asks me to step onto the dance floor with Him. He asks me to trust Him to lead my life, and to simply follow where He leads. Now that is an easy thing to do when He leads me where I want to go. When I get good news from the doctor, its easy to follow. When I get the job I want, its easy to follow. When our income is enough to pay our bills, its easy to follow. So I take the lead. I ask God to follow me, because in my self-centered arrogance, I believe that I know best. Just imagine that. I, a forty-five year old mother of four knows more about what is best for me that the Creator of the universe, the alpha and omega. It sounds hilarious as I type out these words, simply ridiculous. And yet, that is exactly what I do. So the question then becomes whether or not I truly trust God. Do I trust Him to love me? Do I trust Him to want what is best for me? Do I allow Him to lead the dance of my life and simply close my eyes, feel in my soul where He is leading me, and walk by faith? My heart says yes, but my head says no because I am a planner, and it is difficult to plan when I don’t know what dance we are dancing and what song is playing. Over the two last decades, my career has been fluctuating and I struggle to take the lead back from God. I left a career in marketing to become a stay-at-home mom and teach part-time. Worked great for a while. Then I left my teaching career to become an author and speaker, and newspaper columnist. That also worked well for a while. The book contracts were cancelled and I went back to teaching college, full-time this round. I also decided to pursue my doctorate as required by most universities today. Now I am nearing the end of my schooling and am hoping the job comes through, and once again, I am trying to lead. I know what I want, I want the job. I am not sure yet what God wants, and I am afraid to let Him lead. But God is holding out His hand, so I am letting go of my plan, canceling my agenda, and stepping out to dance the dance of my life with the One who created me, the One who loves me more than I could ever fully understand. The music is playing, my eyes are closed, and my hope is in His hands.


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