I saw this tonight, and I'm not ashamed to say I cried. Since Buechner says to pay attention to our tears, I will. I pray that all my family and friends, my community, my city and neighbors - myself - will know this kind of free joy, celebration, such reckless eruption of undeniable life. And I love that this was at a wedding, a moment of beginnings and beauty and goodness.
May you dance. Free. Me too.
Oh - and I love how the (slightly elder) pastor/priest was getting her groove on too. Joy is infectious.
peace - and dance.
- Winn Collier
- I'm a husband, dad, friend, author and pastor. I've written Restless Faith: Holding on to a God Just out of Reach, Let God: The Transforming Wisdom of Francois Fenelon and Holy Curiosity: Encountering Jesus' Provocative Questions. We live in Charlottesville, Virginia in Christian community with a small band of sinners and saints, All Souls Charlottesville.
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10 comments:
crap. i cried too. :-)
and by crap, i mean not crap at all.
glad someone else joined me tonight.
I fell for it! Loved it. Played it a second time for the family.
loved this, Winn. thanks for posting it.
there's a community of friends that has something really, really good :)
Ellen, I think that's it - that's much of what it was that grabbed me. It wouldn't have been even close to the same if it was just one dancing.
In that case, I think you guys might like this: http://is.gd/1NMFN
I am so glad to hear that I am not the only one that cried!!!
Winn, it seems over the world this has taken hold of people's hearts - I just saw it on TV in Australia!! My kids and I loved it too!
i was very close winn and the only thing holding me back was that my mother in law was right next to me watching too!
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