Sharon Sharing God: SPIRITUAL "JAZZ HANDS"

Thursday, August 5, 2010

SPIRITUAL "JAZZ HANDS"

OK, yes, I'm actually going to use "jazz hands" in a post about God!!

Impossible, you think?!

HANG ON!

First of all, if you don't know the concept of "jazz hands" let me explain. The following definition is found on Wikipedia:

Jazz Hands, in performance dance, is the extension of a performer's hands with palms toward the audience and fingers splayed. It is commonly associated with especially exuberant types of performance...

I personally think "jazz hands" are more impressive if you shake them around.

(FYI - a Google search on "jazz hands" brings up some pretty funny photos. I'm just sayin'...)

Here's the deal...sometimes God is JUST SO GOOD to me that I have to give Him some "jazz hands!!"

Lately, God is bringing me blessings that I'm pretty sure I don't deserve...but He's doing it anyway!

Here is a list of the things I'm thankful for, the things that have happened in the last month - the things that warrant spiritual "jazz hands" for God!

1. The courage to start this blog.

2. The words He's giving me to say.

3. The ability to learn new things - (I can't believe what I've learned how to do on this computer! This is TOTALLY the Lord's doing. Evidently, with the help of the Holy Spirit, you CAN teach an old dog some new tricks!)

4. ALL of the wonderful people I've met through this blog! Like YOU!

5. Your much-appreciated words of encouragement!

6. That I actually made it out of that 16-mile canyon/river hike I took in mid-July!

7. For my terrific, handsome, supportive husband...THANKS, Honey!

8. For my family - including my grand-dog, Marty, who I got to HUG on Sunday!

9. For my "Writer's Group" - L, J, and T...don't know what I'd do without you!

10. For wise and wonderful words from HIS WORD! (Like the alliteration, you English fans?!)

There are sooooo many more...but I thought you might want to read this post in one sitting!

So, for now - let's just lift those little "jazz hands" in praise for ALL the things our gracious God gives to us...EACH AND EVERY DAY!

C,mon...

I want to see all those "jazz hands" out in Bloggerland "waving for the Lord!"

YOU, TOO!!

BLOG = "Blessedly Leaning On God!"

7 comments:

DebbieAugust 5, 2010 at 8:28 AM
YES, Sharon, YES! I love this post and so I'm waving my jazz hands at God in appreciation for your inspiriation.

I am definitely going to share your "jazz hands" notion to the friends in my life who would "get it". If I knew you IRL, you would be one of those people. I'm positive.

Waving at you with a little jazz...
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DebbieAugust 5, 2010 at 8:32 AM
OK, me again. This reminds me of something my daughter and niece got the family doing. It's from the movie "Legally Blonde 2" where they put little praises in the "snap box" and then read the "snaps" aloud, snapping their fingers.

My niece has the whole family saying "Snaps for God" and snapping our fingers when we notice Him doing something creative.

She is going to totally love the jazz hands.
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Merana LeighAugust 5, 2010 at 9:03 AM
LOVE this ... BLOG = "Blessedly Leaning On God!"

and LOVE smooth jazz...so jazzy hands for God simply ROCKS!
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MTJAugust 5, 2010 at 9:47 AM
Hi Sharon,

I'm lifting my hands in praise for God's grace; a shower of grace is invigorating.

Thanks for encouraging us to use our hands, and whatever else we can offer in praise to Him who loves us.

Blessings and peace.

MTJ
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KarenAugust 5, 2010 at 10:15 AM
Praising Him with you....jazzy hands and all!
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Janis Van KeurenAugust 5, 2010 at 2:21 PM
Hi Sharon,

So glad to meet you! Your blog home is refreshing!
Love your list of blessings the Lord has put in your life--especially knowing how to do all this stuff on the computer. That's me. Learning by the day with the help of my oldest.
I also read your profile and I like your acronym. Us mothers of grown children (mine are still at home) need an ID, too.
Raising Jazzy hands to praise God for you, today.
Blessings,
Janis
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WendyAugust 5, 2010 at 9:30 PM
Hi Sharon!
I have just given you an award! Please come by and pick it up!
http://www.wendygunn.net/2010/08/award.html
Blessings,
Wendy
Faith's Firm Foundation
www.wendygunn.net
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MY WORD FOR 2016

GRATEFUL

Grateful: feeling or showing thanks to someone for some helpful act; appreciative of benefits received; warmly or deeply thankful; indebted; beholden.

Word origin: 1550's, "pleasing to the mind," also "full of gratitude," from obsolete adj. grate "agreeable, thankful," from Latin gratus "pleasing" – derived from the same word origin as the word "grace."

The trick to changing your behavior is to become more thankful.

The practice of gratitude involves a focus on the present moment, on appreciating your life as it is today and what has made it so.

Let us begin an eternal quest to express in new and creative ways our thanks to God.

So I'm breathing in Your grace,

And I'm breathing out Your praise.

Let our prayers be the overflow of a grateful heart to God.

Three steps in prayer:

PRAISE – praise, reverence, worship, adoration, and awe for who God is and what He does

ASK – honest, earnest, and intense requests

THANK YOU – always end with thanksgiving for everything

Pulpit commentary:

In everything give thanks.

In every circumstance – in joy and in sorrow; for everything – for prosperity and for adversity; in every place – in the house of God and on the bed of sickness.

Christians should not only be engaged in constant prayer, but in constant thanksgiving.

For this – this thankful spirit – is the will of God, His desire.

God by the gift of his Son has laid us under the obligation of perpetual thanksgiving. Our whole lives ought to be one continued thank-offering for all the blessings of redemption.

Gill's Exposition:

Thanks are to be given to him for all things…

For all temporal good things;

for our beings, the preservation of them;

for food and raiment, and all the mercies of life;

for the means of grace, the word and ordinances, and the ministers of the Gospel;

for spiritual blessings, for electing, redeeming, regenerating, adopting, pardoning, justifying, and persevering grace:

for a meetness for heaven, a right unto it, and a good hope of it;

and especially for Jesus Christ, for such a…Saviour, and advocate with the Father, as he is; and for life, peace, joy, comfort, righteousness, and salvation in him.

Thanks should be given to God in every circumstance of life; in adversity, as Job did; when not in so comfortable and agreeable a frame of soul as to be wished for…even under the temptations of Satan…since the grace of God is sufficient to bear up under them, and deliver out of them.

[Give thanks] in afflictions of every kind, since they are all for good – temporal, or spiritual, or eternal.

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Love is when you are missing some of your teeth but you're not afraid to smile because you know your friends will still love you even though some of you is missing.

By Emma K. - Age 6

"Out of the mouth of babes..."

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

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When you are uncertain, it helps to have someone remind you what is true – someone who knows you well, who sees you, and keeps track of you – not just your body but your soul.

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Thursday, August 5, 2010

SPIRITUAL "JAZZ HANDS"

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