Dance: Have You Seen My Sense of Wonder? It is Missing!

12/12/12… and wishing I could be by the ocean, or in a forest. I woke up extra early this morning with Lee Ann Womack’s song going through my head….dance… Lately it isn’t dance, specifically, that I have been missing. It is that inner pull or urge to BE the dance.

I have been absent from my blog for a couple of weeks…. I have run out of inspiration and the threads to my sense of wonder have disappeared from my heart. Either I truly have nothing to say; difficult to believe after thousands of words, right? Or my heart is completely silent.

I attribute it to overwork, and lack of time for regrouping and pondering. A lack of a sense of wonder puts me in the mode where I am solely going through the motions. That is rare territory for me. Keep me (and my students) in your prayers. Many of my students have finals between now and 12/21. What I really want to do today is to walk along the ocean shore (on Long Beach Island, NJ — pre-Sandy damage) and hear the waves (and eat some scallops)…. or sit in a lovely rowboat on a lake in MN …. or time travel back to my early 20s on a special retreat—when some new found friends restored my joy and called me Queen of the Nile….

Instead I am here; prepping my students, trying to edit my son’s book, and trying to compile a project of my own.

My husband is bogged down with work and deadlines. I have shopping to finish for out of town loved ones. I am overwhelmed, and my focus is off….. so today, perhaps, Lee Ann Womack is beckoning me ~ (and maybe you, too) to not lose that sense of wonder. In my case, I need to regain my sense of wonder before I can be mindful not to lose it!

I’ll be back soon….. I am sharing Lee Ann Womack’s song lyrics:

I hope you never lose your sense of wonder
You get your fill to eat but always keep that hunger
May you never take one single breath for granted
God forbid love ever leave you empty handed

I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens
Promise me that you’ll give faith a fighting chance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance
I hope you dance; I hope you dance

I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance
Never settle for the path of least resistance
Livin’ might mean takin’ chances, but they’re worth takin’
Lovin’ might be a mistake, but it’s worth makin’
Don’t let some Hellbent heart leave you bitter
When you come close to sellin’ out, reconsider
Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance

I hope you dance
I hope you dance
(Time is a wheel in constant motion always rolling us along)
I hope you dance
I hope you dance
(Tell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder, where those years have gone?)

I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens
Promise me that you’ll give faith a fighting chance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance
Dance (Time is a wheel in constant motion always rolling us along)
I hope you dance; I hope you dance; (Tell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder, where those years have gone?)