Hi everyone,

One of the things I have been able to rediscover here is my love for photography.  I have been taking digital pictures like crazy.  I also have been making hard prints to put into a photo album. I love to use them to inspire me in my blogging here.

I was looking back at some pictures I took of the barn dance and this one struck me this morning and it poked into my bag of memories.  It is a picture of Mike Ricci, a core member of our house and Trish who is in charge of the assistants here at Daybreak.  She is a really neat lady (I'm due for my big three month review with her).  I remember receiving an email some time back from Judy Lounder back in Riverview about God and GUIDANCE andour spiritual life.

The email spoke about the word "GUIDANCE" and how it can stand for "God-U-and-I-DANCE".  Our spiritual life is truly about a great dance with the divine.  Our life is the dance floor and God, our dance partner. I look at my own dancing talents and well it is is a bit like Elaine Bennice from Seinfeld. ...not pretty. I look at my own spiritual dance in life and it still is like Elaine Bennice of Seinfeld fame.  It is a series of jerky movements, of off beat rythums.  Sometimes it is not pretty, but the attempt is there.

Our spiritual life is a dance...so often we want to lead, sometimes we want another to lead. Somtimes we just want to sit and watch the dance and not participate.  But if we want to truly enter the dance, we must participate.  It is letting God gently take our hand and lead us back onto the dance floor.  It is the divine arm around our waist, hand in hand, listening to the music of our lives, heart close to heart to let the beat become one rythumic beat.

My life has not always been a smooth spiritual dance, but more and more this year I am back on the dance floor.  I have prayed for "guidance" from God, seeking answers to my life's questions.  It is only in staying with God as my dance partner that my heart will hear the voice of the divine.

I must go now...I love this song and God wants to teach me the foxtrot....

Jeff