Just Dance

And I still am one of those people. It’s sad, i know but it’s something i have come to terms with. My feet aren’t rhythmically connected to my ears. I can’t spell my name with my hips. I can barely clap and sing at the same time. And that’s okay.

I really do enjoy watching people dance though. It truly brings joy to the dancer and to the observer. Just the other day i got to witness this phenom, and it broke my heart.

We have been visiting Children’s Garden every weekday to do morning devotion with them. Every morning we sing some songs and play some games. After songs and games it’s testimony time. Two of the guys from CG give their testimony every morning. It’s  not easy to hear at all.

“I was sold by my mother for 200 dollars”

“My mother died so my father sent all eight of us to orphanages”

Whatever the testimony, these kids come from brokenness, from solitude, from chaos, from rejection, from abandonment to the highest degree.

I watched kids that were buried in this dance, laugh, and smile.

I’ve been dealin a lot lately with thoughts of God, the normal questions people have, “Is He real, where is He, why doesn’t He speak”

The thoughts that came in were answered from watching these kids. There is no way someone can come through the things that they have come through and be filled with joy. There’s really only one reasonable answer, it’s completely impossible. Life has been too hard on these kids too early. You can’t take that kinda stuff on your own and be fine. I can’t imagine being put through anything that they have and being able to handle it, alone. It’s impossible because there’s nothing made of flesh and blood that can help. There is however, Someone who WAS made of flesh and blood, we kinda nailed Him to a cross, without knowin our actions fueled by rejection, abandonment, hatred, and misunderstanding would actually bring redemption, and it was just a part of a perfect plan to bring healing and reconciliation to the world.

The only thing that can heal these guys and that HAS been healing these guys is His love, His mercy, His grace, His Spirit. There’s nothing that makes sense that could bring these guys through. That’s where i gotta stop tryin to think that God has to make sense. His ways are higher, His love is greater, He is bigger!(Too many big ideas for one blog, sorry!)

Back to this whole dancing thing. These kids are filled with JOY when they dance, it’s crazy! God has given them dance!! And they’re freaking good! These kids who were living on the street for years are now using dance to minister to other street kids! I can’t imagine what it took for them to go through what they went through and now they’re spreading whatever brought them through their struggles!

We went to a juvenile center where kids are waiting for court hearings, kids who are in trouble with the law. We went their because two of the guys from Children’s Garden come to spend time with them and teach them dance! They have a dance crew with these kids! It’s freakin awesome. 

I’m really random and sporadic when i write, i’m sorry, BUT dance is healing kids, bringing them joy, bringing them love. Dancing is gettin pretty huge it seems like in the Philippines, and sooo when in Rome! Dance is gonna be a huge way of bringin people J-money(that’s Jesus). Seriously though, i’ve seen it work in kids lives here. I’m actually hearin from God on this issue. I’m seein hundreds of kids comin for dance but leavin with something more.

Here’s some pictures from our time at CICL.

Some kids from the Children in Conflict with the Law(CICL)