Good morning…
Our individual hearts are held at home by God as we, individually, hold God in the home our hearts. As we partner with God on the dance floor of life, we listen to the inner music and sway in sync.
As she dances with God, I have been dancing beside ninety-four-year-old Betty Skinner since 2007, but right now is the first time my whole self is swept up in the crescendo of the final page of the holy book chronicling her unique life, The Hidden Life Awakened. Individually, side by side, let’s whisper to God the following words slowly, rhythmically, with our whole true selves.
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My journey is a turning, a returning, A healing, never whole.
It is a story lived,
A story seldom told.
In silence and alone, I slowly struggled upward. Above me, the hills had caught the morning Light. I heard it singing as I went
Among the grass blades and the leaves.
I touched the gray roots of ancient trees,
Their wisdom woven in the rocks.
The dew-wet footprints in the moss are His.
I follow to the cross.
And what is heaviest and mute
Is found, is freed, is raised
In a single, silver strand of praise.
I join hands with others and the earth,
Step into this costly dance.
For eternal is the wheel and endless is the dance That grinds the seasons of the soul
Where nothing falls but into Life.
Grace brought me to this place,
This gentle hill and ground
Where all Beauty is first found.
My story lies upon it. I rest beside it in the dark. For what I found, I am.
And where I am is Home.
BWS
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On the dance floor of life, we glide side by side, turning and returning, healing never whole. What we find, we are. Where we are is Home.
“I am the Vine, you are the branches. When you’re joined with me and I with you, the relation intimate and organic, the harvest is sure to be abundant. Separated, you can’t produce a thing. But if you make yourselves at home with me and my words are at home in you, you can be sure that whatever you ask will be listened to and acted upon. This is how my Father shows who he is—when you produce grapes, when you mature as my disciples” (John 15:5, 7-8, MSG).
…Sue…
