James 2:26... Each one more poignant that the one before it as we poured over scripture laid out by our daughter over a year prior.... Reminding us, pointing towards Christ....then reminding us again of how to continue. As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead. She hadnt danced in years. She was a good dancer...the type that could evoke emotion...that could make your feel the choreography. She did a piece on suicide once that left a full auditorium completely silent....almost disturbing but so incredible real as she portrayed a bullied girl driven to desperation. She stopped dancing in order to, in her own words, devote her whole body to Christ. But I remember this afternoon, for whatever reason she started free dancing under the cabana...just for fun. After that she started dancing with the ladies at the cancer shelter and kids at the dump. It was her desire to bring arts to the kids she encountered so that they too might learn to express themselves. This verse is true... the body without the spirit is dead. Only a shell left behind of the spirit that was once in it. ...a beautiful shell but none the less a shell. A lot of people have asked how this has changed how I look upon life. I think my thoughts can be summed up in the second part of this verse... Faith without deeds is dead.... We only have so much time here on this earth, only much time to do the work that weve been given to do...each of us. Taes death has increased the urgency in me to go and do...go and love...go and be the hands and feet of Christ. I do not know when my time on earth will end but what I do know is that until that day comes I will serve Him to my fullest....and that is the greatest privilege of all.
Posted on: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 13:28:12 +0000
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