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Marriage is like dancing. To learn to dance, you follow the steps on a paper chart, placing each foot in the footsteps on the floor as indicatedbut it takes lots of practice to dance fluidly with great finesse.Often when we marry, we believe we are in love and marriage cant get any better. However, there will be times where we swing and our partner sways. There are going to be times when both partners are fighting for the lead. At other times we just melt together and everything is totally synchronized. Is it possible to keep that synchronization forever? In We Danced, author Lin Sons presents a story-like couples devotional using her 40-year marriage intertwined with a theme of dance. Lin offers life lessons applicable to any couple, whatever their own personal story. Each life lesson is followed by a dance tip designed to bring couples finesse in their dance of marriage. The message in We Danced is clear: the marriage dance takes lots of practice. By invitation, the Lord provides the strength, joy and finesse.

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Publié par	Inspiring Voices
Date de parution	29 novembre 2013
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781462408122
Langue	English

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WE DANCED!

A Devotional Filled with Excerpts …
From the Dance of a real Fairy-Tale Romance
… Including Practical Dance Tips

LIN SONS

Copyright © 2013 Linda Sons.

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ISBN: 978-1-4624-0811-5 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-4624-0812-2 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2013919834

Inspiring Voices rev. date: 11/26/2013

Contents
Introduction
Excerpt 1 Buck and Lin Step onto the Dance Floor
Excerpt 2 The Buck-and-Lin Dance Intensifies
Excerpt 3 “Misty”
Excerpt 4 Our Surprising Start!
Excerpt 5 Scampering in the Ozarks
Excerpt 6 Celebrate Your Differences
Excerpt 7 New Dance Steps Take Shape
Excerpt 8 Buck and Lin March to the Beat of a Different Drummer
Excerpt 9 God Took Our Hands and Led Us When We Had No Strength
Excerpt 10 Then There Was the Hole!
Excerpt 11 Strawberry Hives
Excerpt 12 Our Huge Quarter-Acre Garden
Excerpt 13 Our Perfect Truck
Excerpt 14 The Two-Step to Humility
Excerpt 15 We Began the Foxtrot
Excerpt 16 No Funds—New Home
Excerpt 17 Open the Door!
Excerpt 18 Swing-and-Sway Sacrificial Giving
Excerpt 19 The Word … Alive!
Excerpt 20 The Anonymous Christmas
Excerpt 21 His Love Is Sharing
Excerpt 22 Our Very Special Christmas Gift
Excerpt 23 Four for Two
Excerpt 24 No Compromise
Excerpt 25 Did I Hear You Right?
Excerpt 26 Quilt for the Homeless Man
Excerpt 27 Our Ministry Begins
Excerpt 28 Promoting the Ministry in Palm Bay, Florida
Excerpt 29 Buck’s One and Only Birthday Party
Excerpt 30 Two Left Feet
Excerpt 31 Bible Teaching Explodes!
Excerpt 32 The Bed Collapses!
Excerpt 33 The Palmetto Bug Hits the Fan!
Excerpt 34 Heart “Palpitations” in a Country Club Setting
Excerpt 35 Bruce and Heather’s First Drives
Excerpt 36 Bruce’s Graduation Party
Excerpt 37 Bruce—off to College
Excerpt 38 Honesty Wins!
Excerpt 39 Our Apartment in South Florida—Oh My!
Excerpt 40 Son Overboard—Almost
Excerpt 41 The Dance of Submission
Excerpt 42 The Sons’ Shuffle
Excerpt 43 We Danced in Syncopated Rhythm!
Excerpt 44 The Catering Dance of the Sons Family
Excerpt 45 Heather’s Slumber Party/Ministry
Excerpt 46 First Florida Landlord Experience
Excerpt 47 One-Third Rent
Excerpt 48 Blessings in Perfect Timing
Excerpt 49 Driving Lessons
Excerpt 50 When Bruce Became a Man!
Excerpt 51 Travis AFB—Group Fears Discussion
Excerpt 52 God Sent an Angel named Bob!
Excerpt 53 Do You Remember?
Excerpt 54 Texas Move—$1,000 Gift
Excerpt 55 “Hot Tub Trauma”
Excerpt 56 Heather to College
Excerpt 57 A Car Prayer
Excerpt 58 One Unique Recliner
Excerpt 59 The Birthday Book
Excerpt 60 Parenting Means Trust in the Lord
Excerpt 61 Our Side Steps in Columbus, Georgia
Excerpt 62 Piercing Eyes
Excerpt 63 “Paid in Full”
Excerpt 64 A Foreclosure?
Excerpt 65 A Happy Homecoming, Mr. Sons!
Excerpt 66 Art Works!
Excerpt 67 A “Buck” Letter to a Friend
Excerpt 68 Estes Park—to and from 2009
Excerpt 69 Myles—an Autobiography
Excerpt 70 Applying God’s Plan for Marriage: by Buck
Excerpt 71 Our Last Dance
My Testimony: Lin Sons
Your Invitation to Dance before the Lord Jesus Christ

Written for God’s glory in honor of:

Buck who was my loving husband, partner in life, and best friend,

And

Bruce and Heather, our children, our life gifts of God’s love

Marriage is not a ritual or an end.
It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together,
and nothing matters more
than your own sense of balance
and choice of partner.

—Amy Bloom

Introduction
Let’s Dance—1-2-3-4
L ove is like dancing. You can look at the steps on a paper chart. You can then place your feet on the floor into the paper footprints indicated. Take step 1, move on to step 2, then step 3, and finally step 4. You’ve accomplished the dance technically. What a concept! You can dance.
Not exactly! It takes lots and lots and lots of practice. You must do 1-2-3-4 over and over and over to be able to dance with a great deal of finesse.
Often when we marry, we believe we are in love and things couldn’t get any better. Believe me, marriage takes constant work and refining, massaged with tender loving care. The final days you have together can be much more exciting and intensely more romantic than those early days of romance. Those early days are just the beginning.
This book, We Danced, is written to serve as a couple’s devotional for God’s glory. Whether used as a reading in the early morning or in the late evening, I challenge you as a couple to read an excerpt from our lives, think of your own similar but unique circumstances, and receive the dance tip as a tool to grow closer in your marriage relationship.
The Lord did a marvelous work in our lives. This is His story and for His glory!
He wants to do a marvelous work in your marriage relationship as well. Begin a new work to make your dance alive and vibrant from now till your last breath together. Continue to refine your marriage skills as you work toward the goal as partners through life. There are going to be times where you swing and your partner sways. There are going to be times when it might seem you are both fighting for the lead. At other times, you just melt into each other’s arms and everything is totally synchronized. You two want that moment in time to last forever!
It’s up to the two of you—both of you—to work to make those moments last. If you are willing to work, let’s get started. Let me share excerpts from our dance to encourage the two of you!

EXCERPT 1
Buck and Lin Step onto the Dance Floor
T he scene opens with eight singles sitting around a table in a college cafeteria. Debbie, Donna, Carol, and I were attending a Campus Prologue Weekend sponsored by Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois for all high school seniors. While I had no intention of attending this university, I wanted to go with my girlfriends for the weekend. My plan was to attend another university but to use this weekend to determine my field of study. I planned to visit the colleges of music, education, and English to choose the degree I would pursue.
As with all love stories, my life began a wonderful adventure that November weekend. I began to learn what it meant to dance.
My friends and I were scheduled to meet a friend, Dave, who was then attending Millikin. He met us for lunch at the appointed time with three of his friends: Scott, Harold, and Buck. After a casual get-acquainted lunch, Buck invited all of us girls on a personally guided tour of the campus. Buck was quite the gentleman on the tour, opening the doors for us as we passed from one building to another. Like always, I took it for granted that I deserved that gentlemanly consideration. Later my friend pointed out (in front of Buck) that not once had I thanked Buck for opening the doors for us. From that moment on, my thank-you—with a curtsy at each door—became a highlight of the tour, and it was always accompanied with flirtatious laughter.
Slowly but surely, each of the girls dropped out of the tour. At the end of the tour, Buck asked if I would attend the dance on campus with him that night. I accepted his invitation, and we attended the dance in his dorm’s recreation hall. We began talking—and we danced!
Somewhere in the process of the tour and the dance, Buck and I exchanged addresses and phone numbers. When I returned home, I wrote him a thank-you note for helping to make our Millikin University weekend memorable. Buck and I continued to correspond via written letters through the holidays.
Mid-January I received a letter from Buck. The letter included an invitation for me to attend a formal dance held at the Elks Club near the campus. I later found out this was the college dance of the year. I borrowed a blue-green brocade dress. We were to go dancing!
My heart pounded as I watched from my bedroom window as Buck’s 1963 Olds pulled into our driveway. I waited upstairs but watched as he came to the door. He was very handsome and seemed quite relaxed and comfortable as he met my dad at the door. I made my entrance, and we talked with my brother and my parents.
We arrived at the hall, which was decorated beautifully in red and whit