Dancing redux
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.
Makes me wonder whether common prayer and a sense of humility might be the same thing, moving at different speeds… a sense of humility, just common prayer, dancing?
Anglicanism, as Terry Holmes has said, is a mode of making sense of the experience of God, a particular approach to the construction of reality, or to the building of a world. Nothing so well helps order this experience as the Book of Common Prayer. Through the repeating cycles and the one-time crises of life, it tells us and the world who we are; it tells us what we believe about ourselves and our relation to God. If we listen to its rhythms carefully, it can center us and protect us from letting too much distance show between our sense of humility and our sense of humor.
Perhaps then may we experience the incredible lightness of being. Common prayer dancing, indeed.