Divine Choreography

I often view lively, biblically-based, Spirit-inspired faith to be
like a dance. It is not so much choreographed steps that we
men and women dance, but a divine choreography, the Dance
of God. Jesus Christ, the Son, dances; God the Father choreo-
graphs; and the Spirit of God animates and invigorates, enabl-
ing the Dancer, Jesus, to dance the Dance choreographed by
the Father. All we can do is watch and marvel at God's glorious
Dance.

Every year for countless generations, we and our ancestors
have watched the the same Dance unfold. During Advent, the
four Sundays before Christmas, we hear the promises of the
coming Dancer, and wait in eager anticipation and expectation.
At Christmas we joyfully celebrate the Dancer coming to dance
among us women and men who knew not how to dance the
dance of life.

It was on a Friday nearly two thousand years ago that the Danc-
er got out on a dance floor outside a city gate of ancient Jerusal-
em and danced the Dance that not one of us could ever dance.
He died. He was buried. But the Spirit raised Him from the dead.
Out on the dance floor He went, dancing the dance we could nev-
er dance.

The Dance did not end there with the Risen Dancer dancing the
night away in Jerusalem of yesteryear. We continue through the
year to remember Jesus' ascension to be with the Father (this
year on May 17) and the coming of the Holy Spirit with power
at Pentecost (May 27). But even then the Dance is not ended,
for we eagerly await Jesus' coming again in glory.

Please do not take me too literally or seriously for what I now
write. But I often envision the Triune God out on the dance
floor, taking great pleasure in dancing the Dance. All around
the dance floor there are multitudes of us who believe that we
are not good enough dancers to go out on the dance floor to
dance the night away. But I see the Triune God inviting us out
onto the dance floor to join in God's Dance. And I hear the Tri-
une God saying to each one of us: 'Dance, my children, dance!'

Continued blessings to you and yours.