Yesterday, before my eldest brother Barnes and his amazing girlfriend Beth left, we had a pray together.
Whilst we prayed for each other and for Mum and Dad, Beth had such a wonderful picture for me. I drew such comfort from it that I decided to share it with you.

She saw me on a stage, dancing with Jesus.
This picture was already of huge significance because (although Beth had no clue about this) when I had some healing ministry two years ago, that was the picture I was given during the healing… Isn’t God lovely?!

Anyway, Beth had this image of me and Jesus dancing. We had danced a joyful jive type dance and I was out of breath… then the lights dimmed and a phrase on the screen behind me came up, “Dancing in the dark”

Beth said she thought that was what Jesus was doing with me at the moment. It was an intimate dance that required a deep level of patience and trust. The dance is not about the spectators in the crowd seeing anything much. It is about me sensing the presence of Jesus’ hand in the half light. It is about Him taking the lead and me following – blindly.

There was something so perfect about this image in my spirit that big tears rolled down my face as she spoke. I thought of my lovely Mum who sat yesterday with the Hospice at home nurse and told him she was not afraid to die. I thought of my Dad who spoke passionately about God’s faithful hand to him across the years.
They too are dancing in the dark.
They don’t care who is watching.
But many, many people are.

The nurse suddenly spoke out a phrase to us yesterday that I shall treasure.
Mum was lying in her special bed and the sun was pouring in at the window, just lighting up her sweet little face. She looked serene and even happy.
The nurse said, “I hope you don’t mind me saying this, but peace just radiates out of you.”
Dancing in the dark does that to you.
Mum is learning that.
So are the crowd of on-lookers… those who know the dance and those who have never seen the dance leader in their lives.

There is a song
“We will dance, we will dance for Your glory” that I recently sang at a friend’s wedding.
I shall never sing that song again without thinking of this time in our lives.

You don’t need a light on when you know who is dancing with you.