november the first.

[take_a_sadsong]

There has been a great deal to say but not much desire to say it over the past few weeks. It is hard to think on only the things that are lovely, pure, of good report, when you find that you are terribly sensitive to injustice in all sorts of systems. So instead of sorrow, unfairness, and falsehood I think of this instead: the desire that burns for

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[faeriemaiden]

I always find it sad when churches frown upon dancing, because for me, it's such a freeing and glorious form of worship. It's better than singing, sometimes, because you don't need to be able to form -- I don't know, rational thoughts? It's a little like speaking in tongues with your body -- you can throw all of that emotion and struggle and praise and questioning out there and God knows how to interpret what you don't know how to say in words. I empathise quite a lot with David... although generally I keep my clothes on. ^-^ (Of course it also depends on what dancing consists of and where you are doing it because I have seen a great deal of dancing I would not mind being frowned upon. :/)

Heh, now that we are the only residential anything on a street consisting of three churches, a bank, an abandoned radio station building, and a police station, nobody ever comes to our door on Halloween.

[take_a_sadsong]

Well, you see, I've always been conflicted about dancing in church. On the one hand, I agree with you that it is a beautiful, freeing form of worship. But I don't want to dance because I feel like doing it, because then it is more of a pleasurable and selfish experience than a pure form of worship. I want to dance if I feel the Spirit is moving me to do so, not because everyone else is doing it or because it's "fun". I don't want to be religious and legalistic about it, but at the same time I don't want to do something for God because I'm being pressured to. I want it to come from my heart. I want it to be pure.

Haha, there are several houses on our street that are empty for various reasons, so even if we did have our porch-light on I'm not sure if anyone would have come. :P