Welcome back! If you are new to this blog, on Friday or Saturday I will post something from my Vault, or one of my other Writing Projects. The Psalms Project is my attempt to take the spirit of the Psalms and re-apply them and write new ones for today. I am NOT trying to replace the amazing Psalms already in the Bible! I am in no way trying to paraphrase or restate each Psalm, but I do pay homage to them and other Bible passages, of course. While often meant as songs in the Hebrew Scriptures, mine are more like meditative essays. I invite you to play along, see what you might identify with or relate to in these. So, here is another Psalm for a Modern Day.
THE DANCE
I begin again. A thousand restarts–never ending, always trying, trying, trying.
And seeming to fail, fail, fail.
But I get up, again and again and again.
Does it ever end?
Practice. It hits me: It’s all PRACTICE.
It was never supposed to be perfect. It can never ever be perfect.
What is perfect anyway?
Perfect is a construct of my imagination–from a Tree, so long ago.
There’s an invitation to a Dance, ancient as ancient can be. Long before Us.
All the attempts to be “good” are the dance steps, but they were never the end. This was never meant to be done perfectly–only God in us can make it what it is meant to be for each individual.
So, I accept that it is Practice, never perfect, never done.
Begin again, rest in it’s undone-ness, incompleteness, and in that, there is beauty.
1 Step, 2 Step, 3 Step, 4 Step…
The Dance has been going on for so very long.
Get in on it.
Finally.
-Eric, the Wordsmith
BP44
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