A friend of mine posted a poem on her blog here. She writes lots of poems, but the words in this one resonated on some deep vibrational level, so I told her how much I loved the thought.... that in fact, I might even want to steal it for my blog.
Here's an excerpt... the words that struck me especially in the context of my decision to make this life in community permanent:
Yes is yes,
but no is just a slower form of yes
until we learn the steps
because
the dance is all there is.
I thought of all the times I had joked about "running off to join the convent if things didn't work out", about all the prayers to God to match me up with a nice Christian guy who was interested in a life of service, about every time the idea of being a nun flitted through my consciousness I had said: not only no, but hell! no!
Another reader took issue with us, both with her words and then my agreement... as if he knew so much more than we do. She patiently explained her point but he kept at it, and at it, and at it.
And, his point was valid, in the context he was coming from. What rankled was his inability to see any other point of view. This is obviously an intelligent man. But in this particular case, it would appear his need to be right overpowered his own intelligence.
I agree the dance is all there is. But if someone keeps stepping all over your feet, he might want to invest in a course at Arthur Murray.
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Not any insistence on my part that I be right... my insistence to stand in firm witness on behalf of victims who have not had their "no" respected; whose "no" was not in any way a version of yes...
I think he just proved your point, didn't he? Ah,some simple can't see beyond their own point of view. It doesn't negate,nor lessen in any way, his point in acknowledging yours.
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