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The Lord of the Dance
Do you remember the Lord of the Dance? I refer to the musical dance
spectacular that we all went
to see on the stage, just so that we could say we saw it. Do you remember?
Perhaps that was just a show, but all the intelligentsia drew the
comparison with the Dance of
Shiva, that somehow expresses the resolution of creation and destruction.
{I remember reading
that this ancient idea is actually consistent with modern Quantum
Physics.} Myself, I find all that
irrelevant, and I didn't bother mastering it. Profound truths never
impress me as much as obvious
ones.
I have seen for myself how! And the Lord of the Dance really dances, and
the more I see it, the more I
applaud Him. Have you ever seen a baby take its first steps in life? What
courage! What faith! What a
fantastic miracle! A real Lord of the real Dance! And similarly, when a
person has to hobble, or go on
crutches, or take diminishing medications, or go through life with a club
foot, or aids, or
schizophrenia, or obesity, and nevertheless finds faith to navigate over
life's tempestuous sea.
The staged performance was only a skill of clever dancing, with too much
glory for too small an
achievement. But the person who has been diagnosed and treated as
psychotic all his life, and who
suddenly gets up out of his drug-induced catatonia, and goes out to buy a
chook, and cooks it for
himself and his friends, and begins to keep his house clean, and really
love his little garden, and lets
his cat out at night for a great big howling cat fight...Oh, yes...I think
I will go dancing myself
tonight!
Beam me up, Scotty! You were wonderful, Dr Spock!
Sr. Giles (C) 2006
Edited
05/12/2008
Br Andrew EFO |
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