Mourning Into Dancing: My Journey through Separation and Divorce

By Wanda Robinson

There is a season for everything. In this book, I want to share some nuggets of wisdom that God has given to me on my journey through separation and divorce. Many people have come to me on this path. Each one brought a different nugget at a specific time when I needed it. Father God knows when I need a song, a shoulder to cry or lean on, a liste

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wanda Dawson
• Release date: Jun 1, 2018
• ISBN: 9781775386513

Wanda Robinson

Wanda enjoys walks in God's creation, creating pictures through pastels and drawings, playing her keyboard, spending time with family and friends, and of course, writing. She loves people of all ages and her desire is that people will come to know Jesus Christ's love, redemption, and hope for their lives.

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Psalm 30:11-12

You have turned for me my mourning into dancing ; You have put off my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness, to the end that my glory may sing praise to You and not be silent.

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Mourning: crying, weeping, sorrow, hurt, and pain.

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Dancing: happy, joyful, excitement.

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Sackcloth is observed when a person wears mourning clothes. (usually black coloured clothes).

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Gladness: joy, exhilaration, and or cheerfulness.

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Glory is understood as: my tongue and or my soul may sing praise to God.

I REFUSE TO BE SILENT

person on knees and dancing

IREFUSE TO BE SILENT about the happenings in my life, whether they are good or bad!

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I Will Not Be

Silent

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The enemy stole

my husband and children from me, through the dissolution of my marriage, and thinks that he has won.

No, It Is a Lie!

My God is greater and more powerful than any mere attack or attempt of the enemy!

My Father God holds me in the palm of His hand.

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Isaiah 49:15,16

:15 Can a woman forget her nursing child, and not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely, they may forget, yet I will not forget you.

:16 See, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; your walls are continually before Me.

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Isaiah 50:4-10

:4 The LORD God has given Me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary. He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear to hear as the learned.

:5 The LORD God has opened My ear; and I was not rebellious, nor did I turn away.

:6 I gave My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard; I did not hide My face from shame and spitting.

:7 For the LORD God will help Me; therefore I will not be disgraced; therefore I have set My face like a flint, and I know that I will not be ashamed.

:8 He is near who justifies Me; who will contend with Me? Let us stand together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near Me.

:9a Surely, the LORD God will help Me; Who is he who will condemn Me?

:10 Who among you fears the Lord? Who obeys the voice of His Servant? Who walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD and rely upon his God.

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Isaiah 43:19

Behold I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it?

I thank

the Lord for this passage of scripture. It shows me how God is so great and powerful, yet so loving.

I draw from His truths, which are promises of hope, peace, encouragement, stability, strength, blessings, a future, freedom, wholeness...and I could go on for a while. I am sure I would be quite lost without His Word!

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Notes

To Everything There Is a Season

To Everything There Is a Season,

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A time for every purpose under heaven:

A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

A time to weep, and a time to laugh; A time to mourn, and a time to dance. Ecclesiastes 3:1- 4

Mourning

Isaiah 61:3

To console those who mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.

Often,

this word is associated with a loved one passing away—death—a funeral.

At a funeral, the immediate family is involved with all the aspects involving the funeral: arrangements, the memorial service, flowers, luncheon, and the list goes on. They also need to find the grace to be able to hold themselves together to converse with the guests who have come to pay their last respects. If you have had someone pass on, then you understand the burden that the immediate family must carry.

A separation or divorce is a breakdown within the marriage between the husband and wife. There is mourning, whether the marriage has lasted two or twenty years.

Do not deny yourself time to mourn. The only way to heal is to mourn. There is no possible way to jump from stage one to stage four of the grieving process. Every stage must be gone through to properly heal!

After all, if a person had surgery following a heart attack and had a pacemaker put in, we would not be seeing him or her jumping up the next day and attempting to go for a jog.

Healing Must Take Place

At the beginning of my journey, I mourned, grieved, cried, lay in ashes (despair), and asked God "why?" over and over. There was a season—a time for that.

I kept pushing forward. It was the only way I could keep my head above water while attempting to swim with absolutely no energy. I had to survive, even if I had no