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there's dancing in heaven?

Lately our church talks a lot about dreaming for heaven and if that is really the place we will be at where it is a place even better than we dream of. This topic was a big theme in elements tonight as well.

We talked about how we are used to define heaven being a place that is boring (singing with a harp all day long all the time….) although it isn’t a place like this. Heaven is so wonderful, maybe it will be where there won’t be sickness, awkward relationships, sadness and such, though for sure it will be a place comes down from heaven to Earth, and everything is new and so amazing, and everything is better than we’ve ever dreamed of. If that place is exciting for us, than how would that change the way you live NOW because NOW that you know that the privilege to enjoy heaven probably matters more than the pain you are going through right NOW.

We then broke into little groups and continue dream about what we imagine heaven can be.

To me, it will be a place where I can dance freely and everyone can dance, no one will judge dancers, or dancers will love each other. I say that because dancing matters to me, just like how living the gospel in my life matters to me. I’ve been dancing my whole life, and I’ve experience the joy from dancing, the freedom in moving so fast that I can hear the cells are breathing with me too, and I can feel I’m getting stronger physically when I dance. For that I’m glad. But for some one who doesn’t dance, maybe that’s you, how is watching other dancing like that appeal to you? Lets not think about party dancing for a second, what do you think about people dancing ballet, modern, tap, hip hop, Chinese dance, Indian dance etc.? Some of the feedbacks from my friends are like “what the hack you are doing?” because the movements a dancer make is so unusual, and that can be upsetting sometimes. Honestly if you try to dance once in your life and discover the freedom I’ve described, maybe you will understand the beauty of dancing. Maybe in heaven, people can learn to dance and dance with freedom just like they wished when they were a little kid.

(side note, dancing in heaven will also be even better when injury from dancing doesn’t exist. Everyone can dance because no one have to worry about twisting ankles or pulling muscles or being sore… that would be great. )

Some form of dancing, like party dancing, has taken dancing to somewhere far from producing joy. Probably you’ve seen some of these moves in parties, or know some of them. All that I know of is girls/guys do moves like that because they want attention, so they can get what they desire. This fact can break your heart if you are a Christian. It certainly breaks mind. They dance like that because they want something, something to fill some hole in them. That hole will be empty again as soon as you get what you thought you wanted the most. You might know what I’m talking about too. Have you ever feel you can never get enough of something and just need more and more of it and still not satisfied? That hole is meant to be for something internal, something that is bigger than you are, something spiritual and Godly. So next time if you see a party dancer, don’t judge, because the truth is inside them, they are missing something but they don’t really know where to get it. Even I have to remind myself this from time to time.

Another thing also related what I’ve seen in dance world is what dancers do to each other. It is in most dancing community, the talking behind your back thing; Talks about how she is so sassy and so annoying, or that she has an attitude and I can’t stand her, or that why would she thinks she is so much better than me? Stuff like that. Do these sounds familiar to you? At least it sounds too familiar to me.

Oh what can I say, dancers are performers, it is true. Performing is not necessary a bad thing if the performance comes from the love of something but yourself. Okay let me try to explain with an example… Like when I’m dancing I enjoy a presence of dancing, because it allows me to feel free, and when I feel that I am naturally performing, but not for the sake of myself. Ahh ya, that’s the best I can do… it’s hard to understand it if you have yet enjoy the fun of dancing. Anyway, performance flows from losing yourself in dancing is not bad at all. Actually if you have lost yourself in dancing, it doesn’t matter if there is no one, or a thousands people watching you, so the performance you put up don’t even matter to you.

But then, if you perform in dancing because of other reason… like to think you are better than others. Performance like this always tries to show others “I am perfect and I am flawless”. People get annoyed of people like that because we all know no one is perfect. For dancers, we try to act perfect because if not, we can’t be sure people will like our dancing, and that is quite unacceptable for dancers. You want people to like your dancing yet you are afraid you might lose your audience and be let down because of it. That’s why we perform so hard and act like we are perfect. But what if it doesn’t have to be this way?

What does the creator of human and all of the goodness says about what He thinks? He would say “Child, I love you and you know I do. You don’t have to be afraid to be let down because no matter who you are I will still love you any way. Yes I will still love you.” Jesus loves a person for who she/he is, He doesn’t love because of what she/he can do, He just loves. No matter what happens.

If dancing will happens in heaven, no one will ever have to try acting a performance, and among dancers there won’t be insecurity within because the fear of not being love doesn’t exist in heaven. Oh if the dance world can be like that dancing will be even better and joyous. I don’t have to hear about talking behind someone’s back again, and I don’t have to worry others being upset because they can’t dance well enough, and I don’t have to worry about being judge to others…. It would be so cool.

Dancing can be so good. I imagine there will be dancing in heaven, if the Bible mentioned dancing being an act of rejoicing for good, like in 1 Samuel when they were singing in their dances for David. I imagine dancing is a good thing. And I’m gonna say, you might want to seriously consider learning dance if you don’t understand what I said… you will learn a lot of new things from learning to dance, and maybe you will see dancers with a different eye.