Funny the things I think of while eating lunch at work....
I was thinking about how life goes, how it has its ups and down, and how so many of us find it hard to just trust God that he knows what he's doing. It reminded me of a dance.
Now, I don't know much about dancing, but I'll pretend I do. Imagine God as the leader of a dance, and we are each the following partner to God. There may be times when he spins us, dips us, etc. Think of this first as a physical dance -- in your mind's eye, how long do such potentially scary moves last? A second? Two at the most? Even though we don't necessarily know the next choreographed move, in a typical dance the time goes by so fast that we don't have time to ponder life and doubt that the leader will catch us.
The difference is that the real dance with God is a lifelong dance. It is swing dancing in slow motion. Instead of the dips and spins (the scary parts) lasting a second, they may last months -- and since we're human, that gives us plenty of time to have all sorts of doubts and develop all sorts of untrusting attitudes.
So the moral is: it's easy to trust when the timescale is a few seconds. Our role in the spiritual life is to maintain trust when answers, resolution, peace, whatever may not come immediately, and may not come for an extended period of time. It's the waiting, the patience, the day-to-day stuff where the battle is won.
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