Dancing and Marriage

Its seems so many romantic songs that I like talk about dancing. There is something about dancing that moves me. Dancing on your daddy's feet as a his little princess ! Dancing in front of the mirror to your favorite tunes as a teenager. Dancing on your wedding day with your dad so bittersweet. Dancing in the dark with your babies partly to get them to sleep, partly savoring the tenderness of the moment. How I wish I had one of those nights back. Smelling that baby hair, hearing the gentle breathing and swaying in the moonlit room, while humming our favorite song. Then there is the toddler dance. You know it!! Its rained for 10 million days, you have kids with way too much energy and its only 10 in the morning. So you crank the radio and the whole house becomes your dance floor. From room to room you prance and twirl. The house erupts in giggles as your little ones watch you dance and they catch a glimpse of a "carefree" mommy, not worried about balanced diets and bedtimes, but totally wrapped up in the moment with them. Treasure those memories.
Then their is the dance of love, which the song in my previous post talks about. Remember the first dance you had with your honey. How stiff and awkward it was, not knowing which way the other would move. Too slow ...too fast ...too much sway..ouch my toe again and then start all over. Its almost painful to watch.....believe me we have never mastered the dancing thing but I have come to realize that we've been dancing this life together now for long enough that there is a gentle flow to our dance! As the song says "dancing in the minefields" That got me thinking about marriage and life, yes there are a lot of minefields out there, lots of stresses and pressure that couples face. It becomes an art to stay together with your dance partner and weave gentle to and fro as you are guided through the storms. Now some choose to sit out those dances and sadly they never get back up on the floor again.
As I swayed in my kitchen last night I thought of all this dancing, not really fearing that his big work boots would crush my little hot pink toes!! Not fearing that he would leave the dance floor never to return. Realizing that there was such a comfortable back and forth sway not even a hint of that early awkwardness. We have been at this dance for some time and yes sometimes it feels like a waltz and other times it feels like a jitter-bug but the security is knowing my dance partner is not sitting out any of the dances!