The title of my blog today is a line from a song that is out right now. It may be the title of the song, I don't know; I've only heard it a few times, and I don't really even know what the song is about. But that one line gets stuck in my head on the regular, and is enough to send me off into deep thought on the regular! It is even my Facebook status today!
To me, this is a pretty profound statement-- particularly from a good Calvinist pov. What it says to me, as a good Calvinist, is that our humanness keeps us from dancing the kind of dance God has in mind for us. Not that we're puppets on a string that God pulls one way or another, but that, as humans, we are trapped under the weight of sin that we all carry; and that our souls are meant to be light and free from the gravity of human existance that weighs us down. When we dance with God we become free to be Adam and Eve, in the garden, once again-- free to be innocent and naive, free to believe the best of others, free to not expect hurt and pain to be a natural part of our experience, free to be who we are as children of God, without fear of hurting or disappointing God or the ones we love.
The good news is that in Christ we can dance as God hopes we will dance. Jesus Christ, while on earth, gave us the example of what it looks like to dance. Following him, following his teachings, can help us to leave behind some of our own humanness; as we do so we become as dancers, our spirits atwirl in the air, floating and laughing and weightless and full of light.
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