THOUGHT MESSAGE FOR THURSDAY, Dec. 10

Dancing

Dancing with Salmon
Dancing with The Trees
Dancing with The Lions
Dancing with The Sea
Dancing with Miracles, Ideas and Rememberings
Stopping for a moment to catch one's breath.

Pondering these things un-ending me
I thought only of you.
Dancing red with fire
Dancing blue with oceans free
Dancing gold with worth and merit
Dancing with someone as warm and
As beautiful as thee.
Dancing with ruby-throated Hummingbird,
I could feel a Butterfly begin to dance inside of me.
I saw a bolt of lightning
Dance with a World at Peace, knocking war out of the picture.
I heard a Voice of Fire crackling over
Old ideas to set them free.
Old wrappings and traps the mind seems
Unable to step out of.

All the locks and shackles have rusted through
And broken away from The Packages
Leaving The Heart free to bleed as it will.
The Eternal Mystery manages to dance around The Wounded Need.

With so much singing to do, how can life be so mean?
A series of dance steps we take
Accepting the challenge to take leave of our chances
Regardless of the warnings others tell us not to,
Never missing the opportunity to join in The Dance with creatures alike
Who have been making their entrance on the stage
Known to us for thousands of years, auditions notwithstanding
A genuine presence familiar to many now.

"I feel a genuine welcoming in my bones
Every time you come home to me," said the tree to The Meadowlark.
"Perhaps you never went away,
After all I’ve said or done,
Or forgotten to tell you:
The Dance of Love between us has no ending.
The Choreographer who wrote down all the movements we work so hard to express
Will change places. Soon he will become The Dancer on The Stage
And The Dancer will write the choreography this time.

When the Lovers The Universe has chosen have exited left and entered
The Age of Ancient Dreams
Their Creator will come forward from behind, pirouette and exit right,
Silhouettes once stitched with madness will move back onto the screen
Trembling threads along the seams of every curtain,
Waiting momentarily for The Chance to reveal
The chorus line.
They then burst open to streaming refrains
Sacred Dancing of Life on sacred beams
The Eternal Moment of An Even Greater Dance that lies ahead!

It may be hard for you to imagine that rocks and minerals
Can dance with the water, the moss and the loam
That moves down The River with them,
Or the sod and the soft mossy plants that cover them. But they do!
They become attached to each other.
They are Love-dancing.
The Trails of a Life well-lived upon which you tred,
Will pass us by somewhere between The Un-noticed and
The Un-Discovered. The well-traveled roads of asphalt and concrete?
Do they dance without the weeds they're used to? I think they do.
I’ve been there. Watching the rocks and boulders shake their feathers,
Rattle their timbers
Shimmering sacred potholes filled with inner light,

For I too am but a stone,
A Man-Maid-Mother-Mountain-Child-of-a-Thousand Valleys made of sod and loam.
Once I was fire, now I am Bone. Once I was Flesh, now I am Stone.
Born Of You, Before You and After You.
Now I have become you once more!
I am home with you again, now that I've said that!
Resting in your arms, with your presence
Delightfully nestled
Between breasts once dry
Now full of milk, fully formed
Your Song still ringing in my ears, dancing in my pebbled heart
A comforting, a blessing, a Line Of Beautiful Memories
Never-ending, never needing The Refrain
That originally started me singing.

I know not how or why this happened for
I am crumbling softly into your bliss as I speak
The Whole World of Dancing seems to be dancing at my feet
Dancing with you has left me spell-bound on the first round of the chorus.
I am a sequel beyond the belief of My Own Beginning.
Leaping forward, laughing long, joyfully dancing towards those smiling eyes
That still excite the throngs,
Those trembling yet smiling lips extending well beyond your shining face!
It is good to see you, My Beloved Angel, My Moon and My Sun!
It is good to be stream-dancing with you again!
Such Good Fun for you and me in this heavenly Sunspace
When I see you and me shining as one!
Said The Moon to her Sun as they danced into a new day together.

Aho!