Christina's Page

The Dance

Don't jump up and shout "Yes, this is what I want! Let's do it!" Just stand up quietly and dance with me Show me how you follow your deepest desires
Spiraling down into the ache within the ache
And I will show you how I reach inward and open outward
To feel the kiss of the Mystery, sweet lips on my own, everyday
Don't tell me you want to hold the whole world in your heart
Show me how you turn away from making another wrong
Without abandoning yourself when you are hurt

And afraid of being unloved
Tell me a story of who you are
And see who I am in the stories I am living
And together we will remember that each of us always has a choice
Don't tell me how wonderful things will be . . . some day
Show me you can risk being completely at peace
Truly okay with the way things are right now in this moment
And again in the next
And the next
And the next

I have heard enough warrior stories of heroic daring
Tell me how you crumble when you hit the wall
The place you cannot go beyond
By the strength of your own will
What carries you to the other side of that wall
To the fragile beauty of your own humanness
And after we have shown each other
How we have set and kept
The clear, healthy boundaries that help us
Live side by side with each other
Let us risk remembering that we never stop silently loving
Those we once loved out loud

Take me to the places on the earth that teach you how to dance
The places where you can risk letting the world break your heart
And I will take you to the places where the earth beneath my feet
And the stars overhead make my heart whole again and again
Show me how you take care of business
Without letting business determine who you are
When the children are fed but still the voices within and around us
Shout that soul's desires have too high a price
Let us remind each other that it is never about the money
Show me how you offer to your people and the world

The stories and the songs you want
The children's children to remember
And I will show you how I struggle
Not to change the world, but to love it
Sit beside me in long moments of shared solitude
Knowing both our absolute aloneness
And our undeniable belonging

Dance with me in the silence and in the sound of small daily words
Holding neither against me at the end of the day
And when the sound of all the declarations
Of our sincerest intentions has died away on the wind
Dance with me in the infinite pause before the next great inhale
Of the breath that is breathing us all into being
Not filling the emptiness from the outside but from within


Don't say, "Yes!"




Just take my hand and dance with me

AHO!

~Be Someone~

Be someone who listens, and you will be heard. Be someone who cares,
and you will be loved. Be someone who gives, and you will be blessed. Be
someone who comforts, and you will know peace.

Be someone who genuinely seeks to understand, and you will be wise. Be
someone kind, someone considerate, and you will be admired. Be someone
who values truth, and you will be respected. Be someone who takes
action, and you will move life forward.

Be someone who lifts others higher, and your life will be rich. Be someone
filled with gratitude, and there will be no end to the things for which
you'll be thankful.

Be someone who lives with joy, with purpose, as your own light brightly
shines. Be, in every moment, the special someone you are truly meant to
be.

-- Ralph Marston