“The discipline of celebration is changing my
life, and it is because of the profound discoveries that this way of living
affords me that I invite you into the same practice. This is a tap dance on the fresh graves of apathy and
cynicism, the creeping belief that this is all there is, and that God is no
match for the wreckage of the world we live in. What God does in the tiny corners of our day-to-day lives is
stunning and gorgeous and headline-making, but we have a bad habit of saving
the headlines for the grotesque and scary.
To choose to celebrate in the world we live in
right now might seem irresponsible.
It might seem frivolous, like cotton candy and charm bracelets. But I believe it is a serious
undertaking, and one that has the potential to return us to our best selves, to
deliver us back to the men and women God created us to be, people who choose to
see the best, believe the best, yearn for the best. Through that longing to be our best selves, we are changed
and inspired and ennobled, able to see the handwriting of a holy God where
another person just sees the same old tired streets and sidewalks.
The world is alive, blinking and clicking,
winking at us slyly, inviting us to get up and dance to the music that’s been
playing since the beginning of time, if you bend all the way down and put your
ear to the ground to listen for it.”
-Shauna Niequist, Cold Tangerines
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