I’m listening to Eckhart Tolle read “Stillness Speaks”. Oh, this…

I'm listening to Eckhart Tolle read "Stillness Speaks". Oh, this little book is so profoundly beautiful. Beautiful seems too small a word to point to the deeper reality that is hidden in us, in the moon, the cosmos, this rock upon which my physical body (form) is resting... I had to stop. Rewind. Replay the intro and chapter one again and again.

It's just so sweet. I feel the unending, eternal grace, divine presence, universal Christ presence, the divine sweetness and light, whatever you want to call it, as I listen to these opening words. It's like a call to return home, not a physical home or even home with our sadly dysfunctional, yet beautifully broken family home. It's like a call to our real home, home in the divine sweetness and light and creativity and joy that has always been in us and through us and in and through everything.

I'm listening to Mandisa in the morning now. Her lyrics start to get to the heart of this:

From Dance, Dance, Dance

"Maybe you don't understand why I gotta dance

There was something had me down but it's over now

I'm a throw my hands up

Wave 'em all in the air

'Cause all I wanna do is dance, dance, dance

They told me you ain't good enough

Don't look good enough

Don't sing good enough

Maybe you should give it up

And if I would've then I never could've received

None of the things that He planned for me

So I waited a little longer

Grew a little stronger and then

I realized something was happening

It's so incredible, it's unexplainable

You oughta try Him for yourself and see because

Maybe you don't understand why I gotta dance

There was something had me down but it's over now

I'm a throw my hands up

Wave 'em all in the air

'Cause all I wanna do is dance, dance, dance..."

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