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Dancing is great fun. Even when you dance on your own, focus is needed, as you tune outwards into the music or inwards into your body and how it wants to express itself. And when dancing with other people, whether with a partner or in a group, there is even more awareness needed, as you keep an eye on the other person, coordinate with their movements, mirror or match, keep up with or dodge. In his book Mere Christianity, C.S.Lewis wrote this: “In Christianity God is not a static thing — not even a person — but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama. Almost, if you will not think me irreverent, a kind of dance.” I love this picture of the Trinity, three persons moving as one, and it's a good image to keep in mind as we aim to live and work together across the chaplaincy. In dance, we do not always do the same moves as the person next to us, our bodies are not the same, we have different skills and ease, and yet the dance is made from each of us together.
Rev Beth
Please note: Rev Beth and Rev Iain are at the Diocesan Synod between 1-4 June.
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