Due to my latest sprained ankle, I was forced to observe Modern IV today at Hosanna Dance. To settle the squirms and fidgets building up inside me, I pulled out a pencil and notebook and scribbled down the thoughts I received from observing. Here is a small excerpt of my thoughts:
To dance without God would be wasted movement. Meaningless forms that would take up time and space given for the worship of our Creator. A body made to bring praise to the Perfect One, rather, praising an imperfect selfish beast. Precious music meant to rain notes and rests of love onto the audience, thrashed onto the floor to make way for a monster. Beauty, gifted for His glorification turned inside out for the self-glory and pride of an animal. Stressed breathing, precise lines and shapes, momentary defiance of gravity, unchained drops of sweat, muscular control, natural beauty, unlimited flexibility, everlasting movement, yet the heart lies still...
To dance without God is an artist's suicide.
8 comments:
idk why it comes out so dark...everything I did didn't fix it. Oh well. At least it's readable.
That's beautiful Kerry! Thank you
your words are amazing!
Thanks guys! You all inspired parts of it. Not in a bad way.:) For example there was a time you, Caitlyn, were dancing right towards me and you were breathing hard, thus-> stressed breathing.
That is very deep and thought provoking. Do you think it is impossible to worship God without the intention of worshiping Him?
And I wanted to add, in the words of Caitlyn: "your words are amazing!"
And beautiful.
And the metaphor of the monster is so clever of you.
Renae,
I've never thought about it before. I know it is possible to worship earthly things without intending it to go to that point so I would assume it could be the same with God, however, He is no earthly thing, so with that in mind I also have great doubts. Definitely something to ponder.<3
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