Dancing into Heaven 

The two steps keep going for me. I feel like the dancing should have come to a resting space by now. 

Yet it keeps going.

 

How is that even possible? 

It is beyond my comprehension at times and yet taking two steps toward a space has been created over many years. 

 

At times it feels like I am going to the left and then to the right. 

And finally like I am going to dance into heaven. 

 

What does that feel like? 

 

Let me use a few words to describe this for you. 

 

Shall we begin? 

 

Take my hand and come with me as we dance through this. 

Let’s twirl and start again.

 

We’re ready, Mr. Music. 

 

Last summer I attended a concert with two others.

This concert came at a time when I had a raspy quiet voice. 

 

It was actually barely a whisper, at best. 

Not great for singing at the top of my lungs with a thousand others.

 

The concert began under an amazing sunset and then the stars came out.

A couple of songs got me tapping my toes as I sat on a blanket, and then one more had me standing up to dance. 

 

Heaven from the Psychedelic Furs was floating through the air.

Suddenly I was dancing into heaven.

Suddenly I was dancing into heaven. I was whispering the words out loud along with the band but singing as loud as I could in my head. 

 

The louder the music rumbled around me the more I found a rhythm.

 

Turns out I could still sing this song even though I was the only one to hear the words. It also turns out that this song brought on more thoughts about dancing into heaven. 

 

Let’s tap a toe into what those are, shall we? 

First, take a look at the lyrics.

 

Heaven

The Psychedelic Furs

 

Heaven is the whole of the heart

And heaven don’t tear you apart

Yeah heaven is the whole of the heart

And heaven don’t tear you apart

 

There’s too many kings want to hold you down

And a world at the window gone underground

There’s a hole in the sky where the sun don’t shine

And a clock on the wall and it counts my time

 

And heaven is the whole of the heart

And heaven won’t tear you apart

Yeah heaven is the whole of the heart

And heaven don’t tear you apart

 

There’s a song on the air with a love-you line

And a face in a glass and it looks like mine

And I’m standing on ice when I say that I don’t hear planes

And I scream at the fools, want to jump my train

 

And heaven is the whole of the heart

And heaven won’t tear you apart

Yeah heaven is the whole of the heart

And heaven don’t tear you apart

Yeah heaven

Ah heaven

Yeah heaven

Written by: MILES JAYE DAVIS

Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind

 

Do any standout to you? 

There are many that do for me. 

 

The ones that talk about clocks help me focus and did the night of this concert. 

 

I find myself thinking about time even now. 

 

Time can be something that is held close, feels like it is fleeting or is going to go on and on. 

I have felt all three of these.

 Dancing with time.

Dancing with time, seeking a balance or looking for a way to stretch time out before me. 

 

Now, I look at clocks yet not in the same manner as I have in the past. 

 

There are less meetings and appointments to rush to, so I savor time, let it wander around me and then take care of what is in front of me. 

 

I get curious with it and hold it tenderly in my hands. 

 

M’hm. 

 

What could come next. 

Do you see other lyrics in this song that make you wonder? 

 

Here are the ones that popped out next as I danced under the stars belting out the tune in my head. 

 

The face that I have seen in the glass has been changing over the years. 

One time I looked up and almost did not recognize myself. And then I realized it was when I found a true mirror that I started to recognize more of myself, bit by bit.

It was when I danced into heaven that I remembered.

It was when I danced into heaven that I remembered that when the music gets louder, the more I can feel my feet. 

This brings me back to who I am. Reminds me to look up and see what is important. 

 

How’s that for being in space? 

 

What do you think? Is this different from how it feels for you? 

 

What comes next? 

Dancing into heaven can also be what I find with this view. 

 

For me, mountains and clouds have brought me closer to a glimpse of heaven. 

 

This is where I feel my heart, where I am torn apart and then where I find my feet again. 

 

Do I dance with it? 

 

Yes. 

 

And then there is this.

 

I also glimpse time when a train comes into view. 

That is the bonus with this, my friends. 

 

Dancing into heaven brings all of this to me. 

 

I now get to pay attention to time, faces and places that bring me dancing into heaven. 

With gratitude and a space to pause here with you, my friends.