We Are all Dancers

May 17, 2007 by Rev. Sean McMillan.

I was in the office of a friend of mine the other day and I overheard a conversation between two women about the vacation one of them had just taken. Apparently, the woman who was doing most of the talking 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, “she is not a dancer.” And as I stood in the office of a doctor who specializes in treating people that are battling cancer my spirit wept for all the women and all the men who have danced their way through cancer and depression, heart break and set backs and have become beautiful dancers and don’t even know it.

I wanted to grab that woman by the hand, look her in the spirit and tell her that none of us can survive the night seasons of life without learning how to dance. We have all had to squeeze our way through tight places and balance the wait of what we wanted against the pain of what we had; we have all had to stand alone and then put other people back together while we were ourselves are 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.

The mood swings of life are always changing and just when you think you have it all figured out something else happens; and if you didn’t know how to dance your way through it all—you would not have made it this far. We are all dancers. We are all moving to the music of our lives. And the secret to living a great life 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 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.So keep on dancing and may the music of your life be full of his joy.   

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