Slow dancing to life

I watched the show Bones the other day, and there was a line that caught my attention.

“Sometimes you just have to dance to the music that is playing.”~ Booth said.

The statement could not be any truer to life in general. We are not in control of our lives like we want or think. When situations like broken relationship, illness, death, tragedies come up we have to face it and deal with what is there before us. We can't change those things . But we also can not sit out just because we don't like the music of our lives and wait till we do like it to dance. There are times that we have to make the best of “what is”. We have to get up and face that reality and work through it. Just like dancing requires movement, different steps, and attention, so does life. You have to find the steps that help you deal with the situation before you.

Think of those times where you wanted to just crawl into bed and pull a blanket over your head. What did that accomplish? The world still turned and the situation continued on. I remember the day after one funeral that I had turned on the TV and saw how the world continued on even though my personal world seemed to stop. It hit me then how life goes on whether you are part of it or not.. It was not the song that I wanted but was the music that was now playing. I had to dance to get my strength and to face the new melody of life.Life is definitely not like an Ipod that we only add the stuff we like and can scroll through and pick what we want to listen to. Life is like Itunes or pandora on shuffle. There is all kinds of music from uplifting to depressing, from peaceful to unsettling, from fast to slow, and from joyful to sad. You just don't know what will come up next and you do not have the option of hitting next or fast forward the music. You have to make the best of it. Now, here is the good part! You can still dance with your head held high during tough times. You can still dance with joy from memories when life is sad. You can still dance slow when life is unsettling. It does not matter what song is playing, each step as we dance will strengthen us. If not for this time but for another time.The music of our lives is personal and every dance is special in a way. Remember it is more than what music is playing but how we dance to it that matters. And sometimes, we dance that dance very, very slowly to the beat of our own rythm.