CUP OF COMFORT: Dancing for Glory

“You have turned my mourning into joyful dancing.”

Psalm 30:11–12

• I recall seeing a primitive painting of bears dancing in the woods. They are standing erect, fat, with skinny legs and paws, smirks on their faces. They’re in an old forest, for the trees are almost as wide as they are. Camped in a national park this summer, I was humming Chris Rice’s song “Circle Up”: “Grab a hand, twirl a dance . . . and worship Him!” In my imagination I was dancing in honor of the Lord, all by myself in the woods. I looked very much like the bears in that painting—overweight, panting for breath, hands flung in the air as I spun in joy for all He has done. I twirled between the trees, head up, eyes to the sky, singing in His love. Crunching through bright leaves, wading in toe-numbing water, kneeling to admire tiny tundra plants, I am constantly reminded that God’s creation is definitely a place to worship Him. Have you been anywhere His glory is not apparent?

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