Ice Dancing - One

    When Alicia and David first started skating together they were quite awkward. Alicia had skated with another partner before and thought they should do things just as she and her championship partner had done. So she grew quite frustrated with David because he ignored her advice and kept on doing things his own way. Finally, they were close to either looking for new partners or just skating individually.

    Their coach also had his own way of thinking and leading. But one evening when Alicia arrived at the rink, David was already there, skating alone. He did not see her as she silently watched her partner perform. She thought, "I had forgotten his commanding presence on the ice and how masterfully he executes some of the most difficult moves." These were the reasons she had wanted him as her partner in the first place. A tear slid down her cheek.

    Her partner looked up as Alicia approached. "David, I'm sorry," She said. "I would like for us to give our partnership another chance. I realize I have not appreciated you and I have expected you to be like someone else rather than being yourself.

    "What would you say to beginning again with a new coach... someone who is more expert at teaching couples to work together in greater harmony?" Her attitude of humility and cooperation caught David off guard. After a moment, he spoke, "Yes Alicia, I agree. I am sorry too. Let's find a coach who will help us to learn to dance together as one."

    Their new coach was great! Where he saw a weakness in one of them, he suggested a move that emphasized a strength in the other and vice versa. He knew the right music, the right moves, the right everything, to make them look good as a pair. And David and Alicia became more sensitive themselves to the way the other thought and moved and began to anticipate and yield to each other without even thinking about it.

    Soon appreciation replaced resentment. Then, mutual admiration began. And, before long, admiration became love. With love ruling, and under the constant tutelage of their awesome new coach, David and Alicia, who had almost given up on ice-dancing together, became Olympic material.

    Who is orchestrating your life and/or your marriage? Why not turn it/them over to the One who is their Initiator in the first place? He said He has not left us alone, without a Counselor, (the Holy Spirit),... whom He said will "teach you all things..." John 14:26.

Copyright Daphne Harrington 1999