Friday, September 25, 2009

Hearin' God in the Midst of Silence

I work in Starbucks and morning rush is fastpaced and crazy with folk complaining that their 1 1/2 splenda Latte may actually have 2 splendas. God Forbid! However, I had just got off from work and I was waiting for my 18 shots of espresso. I saw this little boy and he is handicapped. He had a trache in his throat and I could tell he had some swelling on the brain because of the abnormal size of his head. He was dancin' and swayin to the music; and he was on beat. It was like ballet and yet cappauella the brazillian martial arts/dance..First, this put my day in perspective. What do I have to complain about my day when I see this little boy. Dammit it's just coffee folks can get over it and in the eternal scheme of things it does not mattter; yet he held a wisdom that was about to be revealed.The guy who was his guardian was waiting for his drink, and noticed that I was watching the little boy. He told me that the little boy could not hear. Yet he was in perfect timing with the music! This is when the Holy Ghost told me that though we cannot hear the voice of God (if I had a witness in the house right now), you can still move with me..We can still move with God, be guided by his Spirit even when we can't hear a Word from God...Because of what Christ did on the cross, and because he was resurrected and sits at the right hand of God, humanity has been invited into the Divine Dance of the Triune Deity. The Eastern Fathers calls this Perechorisis, and the outgrowth or our participation and partnership in this Divine Dance is called theosis - being caught up into the Divine Life. As we dance with the Triune Deity we are transfigured and transformed into his image and likeness...Baby, we just don't dance with the stars, we dance with the Creator of the Cosmos, and even when we can't hear his Word for us, we can still dance with Spirit in the midst of the Silence.

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