And the Angels Dance!

Write Your Own Story the Way You Want It!

We are born with a certain personality--our own individual nature. We can even see it in tiny infants in the special way they coo, laugh, or cry and no two are alike (experts say there are even small differences in identical twins). We recognize the baby's sound and respond to it. Babies react to the particular care and attention given to them by everyone who they come into contact. This is how children learn to recognize their own parents.  

Imagination Lost, But Not Forgotten

As we grow, our natures develop in many different ways. Hopefully, it is in a mature fashion, but at times we may show signs of destructive personality traits. We see in many adults examples of selfishness, irresponsibility, pride, and a general lack of compassion and love.       

When this happens, it causes us to lose sight of our intended direction in one way or another. When we were children or in high school, we probably had a pretty good idea what we wanted to be when we grew up. Our imaginations went wild! We may even have spent time researching how to make that dream come true. Eventually, without the discipline needed, we allowed ourselves to get distracted. Sound familiar?

It could be some of us had parents who encouraged us to get into the right college or trade school. Did we listen? On the other hand, maybe we didn't get the support we needed at home. Our achievements and dreams were not celebrated as a possible pathway for our life ambitions. No one was in our corner.   

If it didn't come from our home environment, most likely we had someone we crossed paths with who influenced us to go after our dreams. Maybe it was a teacher or counselor. An aunt, grandma, or grandpa. A pastor or neighbor. Whether we listened to their advice or not, they recognized the potential in us.    

The Better Path

When we get off course and pursue lifestyles, careers, and marriages that were never meant to be, it changes our entire life map. It's as if we are headed down one path and we find the road blocked. We are forced to use the detour. And sometimes it seems we can never get off it and we start going in circles!

Then we ask, what in the world happened? Years later when circumstances cause us to open our eyes, we see our nature was really traveling down the wrong road. Bingo! Other things started coming to the surface, like so much garbage stuck in the drain. We allowed others to change our course. We lost the space needed to grow, create, and find our purpose. We didn't believe and trust in God to pursue what He had planned for us to do so long ago.

The Angels Dance!

After struggling, perhaps for years, to gain control once more of our own lives, we finally reach a point where we realize our nature was just out of sync with God’s plans for us. He never intended for us to go this way! This time, we turn. We seek. We listen. Our spirit is reconnecting to our soul like magnets attracted to each other. We “put on a new nature” and the angels dance! Renewal begins.

"Put on your new nature, and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like him" Colossians 3:10 NLT.

"In the same way, there is joy in the presence of God's angels when even one sinner repents" Luke 15:10 NLT.