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A Time to Dance

 Last week Mike’s sermon called us out of stuck places… into… what?

I think the following words are inspiring and enlivening.

A Time to Dance, by Henri Nouwen

To heal is to let the Spirit call us to dance.

Can you feel the freedom that rises up in you when you have been stripped naked and have nothing to inhibit your movements anymore? You can dance as David danced in front of the Ark. Can you notice in your innermost being the joy of living that comes from having nothing left to lose? Can you see the soft, beautiful smile that appears in the tearful eyes of your mourning friend? Jesus enters into our sadness, takes us by the hand, pulls us gently up to where we can stand and invites us to dance. And as we dance, we realise that we don’t have to stay on the little spot of our grief but can step beyond it into unknown, spacious territory, until we finally know that the entire world is our dance floor. Yes! Leave – leave your father, mother, brother, sister, friend; leave your nets – and you will have many fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, and friends; all the world will be yours, and you will catch people wherever you dance.

Blessings, Naomi

Posted on October 22, 2013 by Naomi Compton and filed under From The Pastors.