July 22, 2003

Common prayer, dancing

Common sense and a sense of humor, said William James, are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Might common prayer and a sense of humility be the same thing, moving at different speeds… a sense of humility, just common prayer, dancing?

Nothing so well defines Anglicans as the Book of Common Prayer. Through the cycles and the crises of life, it tells the world who we are and what we believe about ourselves and God. If we listen carefully, it can center us and protect us from letting too much distance show between our sense of humility and our sense of humor. Then may we experience the incredible lightness of being.

Common prayer dancing, indeed.

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