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Celebrate!
Easter has come.
Spring is here.
It's time to go
forth in the
dance of the
merrymakers.
During the
opening class of
this academic
term, I invited
my students to
join me in
dancing with
grammar. Indeed,
as we analyze
sentence
structures,
experiment with
new steps in
word order, and
approach the
leaps of gerunds
and participles,
we fling
ourselves
merrily into a
dance of words
and language.
I see many
dances as I go
through a day:
the tentative,
hesitant step of
one new to a job
or a
neighborhood or
a situation; the
erratic, frantic
rush of one who
takes on too
much and can
finish none of
it; the toiling
shuffle of one
who has worked
too many hours
and slept too
little.
I've danced
all these
dances. And I've
also danced the
confident step
that celebrates
the energy of
living, that
reflects
participation in
our glorious
world and joy in
God its Creator.
This is the
dance we are
bidden to join.
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