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Dance With Joy (lessons from my two-year-old #2)


You would have thought Lucy had won the lottery with the excitement she had while dancing and shaking with joy last night. After mentioning that we would be going to the play place with a friend in the morning she couldn’t handle the anticipation. We put her to bed at her usual 7:00 and she didn’t go to bed until 10:00.
I remember that feeling as a kid. Too excited to sleep. Now a day , even if I am very excited, I am so exhausted, that I have no trouble sleeping.
 Do you remember the last time you experienced that kind of joy or excitement?
 I love watching Lucy’s pure joy! She holds nothing back; she has a full body reaction and doesn’t care what others are thinking about, she is just super excited. She even includes those around her.


“ Momma! “Thank you” *jumps* “Love you” *Hug*…*Kiss*

“Daddy too! Love you…miss you…come too…yay!

“Baby Yuke”*squeezes his hand* “ so fun!”

This reminded me of the time king David was dancing in 2 Samuel 6.
       “ Wearing a linen ephod, David was dancing before the Lord with all his might, 15 while he and all Israel were bringing up the ark of the Lord with shouts and the sound of trumpets.”

David was rejoicing because the Ark of the Lord was coming to the City of David. He was that excited because of the Fathers presence! As Michal, Saul’s daughter, pointed out: He was dancing half naked and didn’t even care.
Why was he so excited about God’s presence? Why was he dancing with all his might?
Because David knew the power and the glory of the Father; he knew the miraculous wonders He was capable of.

I hope that I too can be that in love and that excited about my relationship with the Lord. I want to respond like David and Lucy when I think about the cross.

22 I will become even more undignified than this, and I will be humiliated in my own eyes.



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