Dancing into Joy

photo by www.rastudio.ca

Dancing into Joy

This week held the wild extremes of life

Celebration of life and love, music & friends

Desolation and grief over another unexpected death of a young 16year old

daughter of my close friend

Grief came close to my heart again

Walking into the home of fresh loss

is vulnerable

and tender

Ripping my own heart open again

with reminders of my personal losses

bringing me to a place of fatigue

and frailty

And then...

someone comes with a gift of dancing music

flamenco style

we listen in the car in my driveway

but then the music takes hold me

grabs my heart and 

leads me onto the dance floor of my driveway

I throw my self into the dance of life

the undercurrent of joy that still is at the root of my being

My body celebrates a knowing that is deeper

than any human circumstance

My heart experiences the wonder of transcendence

a place beyond my thinking

a place where all is well

and all will be well

And I dance

And dance

And the dance carries me

and reminds me of how to live

how to be present

how to carry on in the coming moments and days and weeks and months and years

always being rooted in the well-spring of joy

always yielding to what is beyond my human understanding

always saying YES

to MORE

I will dance

I will sing

I will live