Dance with Me

 For Ellie Morlang-
 
'Dance with me, I want to be your partner.
Can't you see the music is just starting?
Night is falling, and I am calling.
Dance with me.'

(Dance With Me’ from the 1975 album ‘Waking and Dreaming’ by Orleans)

Rolling the Electra Glide out of the garage,

                My passenger nervously smiled, and tightened her grip on my waist.

 ‘Just around the block, then back home ok?’ she says

                ‘Ok.’ I answered ‘But if you change your mind, just let me know, and we’ll go around a bigger block.’

‘No’ she says,’just around the neighborhood , then home’

        --              As she attempted to ‘steer me’ through the first turn,

Turning my waist like a steering wheel..

                         I was glad she weighed half of nothing,

       

                                          Though she did have quite a grip for 75.

On the straight that followed, I talked gently to her, encouraging her to ‘trust me’, and just ‘enjoy the ride’.

                        To just accept my invitation…

                                                                        and Go with it.

She relaxed.

                I sugguested she would enjoy the padded leather backrests..

                                                                             

                                             and to try out those armrests.

                                         Rest.

 By the time we had completed our neighborhood ‘lap’..

                        Where the left turn would take her home..

               

        She wanted to turn right…

                   taking us into the country…

for the bigger block.

        She forgot about ‘driving’..

                                            to discover ‘riding’…

                                                                           and that changed ‘everything’.

‘This is wonderful!’

                        she said looking all around..checking out the scenary.

‘Next time’.. I told her.. ‘the henna tatoos are on me!’

When you head out on the road ‘two up’..

                it all works together for a wonderful experience

                                        when there is One driver..and one rider.

And two of you ..move as one.

                Just like learning to dance with another..

                                the ‘tango’

                                                  Only exists with ‘lead’ and ‘follow’…’follow and lead’

One is not above the other…

^{John 15}

¹⁵ I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.

        and learning to ‘lead’

^{Matthew 28}

¹⁹ Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

                                                        is only complete with knowing the joy of following.

^{Luke 14}

³³ In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciples.

        and only Together..

                                they become One.

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                                           ‘It’ 

is not something ‘to do’..

                                                 ‘It’ 

is something ‘to allow.’