We Are All Dancers

The other day I was in the office of a friend of mine and I overheard a conversation between two women about the vacation one of them had just taken. Apparently, one of the women had gone away to one of the islands in the Caribbean and while she was there, her husband tried to get her to go dancing but she refused because as she put it, “I am not a dancer.” And as I stood in the office of a doctor who specializes in treating people who are battling cancer, I wanted to weep for all the women and all the men who have overcome cancer and depression, heart break and set backs and have become beautiful dancers and don’t even know it.

 

I wanted grab that woman by the hand and tell her that none of us can survive the night seasons of life without learning how to dance. We have all had to be big in tight places and balance the wait of what we wanted against the pain of what we had; we have all had to stand alone while facing the challenge of helping other people while we were ourselves silently falling apart. We have all loved and then lost what we loved only to love again. And if that were not enough, we have all been wrong at least once.

Life is always changing. And those of us who faithfully endeavor to live at our best must learn how to dance to the music life happens to be playing at the time. We are all dancers. We are all moving to the music of our lives.

And the secret to living is learning how to move gracefully through the circumstances of life with dignity and style because there are no wallflowers at this dance. From the moment we are born until the day that we die we are all dancing. We are all rising and falling, laughing and crying, slowing down and picking up speed; and this is the dance that we do and it is glorious in our eyes.

And so we dance, sometimes in the company of strangers and at other times with tears in our eyes, but the dance goes on. Each day and at every turn we move to the beat of our lives with a sense of reverence and sometimes even gratitude because we must, for to stand still in a sea of endless motion would ensure our destruction and the life that lives in us will have none of that. Everything dances. Even the sun dances across the sky to the music of many colors and at night the darkness does it own dance to sacred sounds of moonlight.

So let there be music. Let there be joy. But most of all, let there be dancing!

 

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  • 5/29/2008 10:14 AM Donta Bell wrote:
    Deep. Deep. Deep. You really do know what to say to encourage someone. Like you always say, keep shining like the sun because the world needs you. Keep your eye on the light at the end of the tunnel. Never let that light fade away. The light is hope. The only way to have hope is the have faith. No one can take your faith away unless you give it away. No one.
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