Mourning That Turns to Dancing

There are things you lived through this year that weren't easy. Losses. Goodbyes. Dreams that didn't turn out the way you hoped. And it's all right that you cried. God isn't afraid of your tears — He collects them.

But notice what He does with them: He transforms. He doesn't erase. He transforms. Mourning turns into dancing. Sackcloth — a symbol of grief and humiliation — turns into a garment of joy.

God specializes in reversals. In turning what looked like an ending into a beginning. What looked like failure into the foundation for something new. What looked like defeat into a story that will inspire other people.

You might still be in the middle of the mourning. That's all right. But believe this: the dancing is coming. Not as forgetting what happened — but as the redemption of what happened.

And when you dance, you'll understand what you couldn't understand while you were crying.