I read this again today.
From Mere Christianity by CS Lewis
…”what Christians means by the statement ‘God is Love’. They believe that the living, dynamic activity of love has been going on in God forever and has created everything.
And that, by the way, is perhaps the most important difference between Christianity and all other religions: that in Christianity God is not a static thing…but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama. Almost, if you will not to think me irreverent, a kind of dance.”
The more we love others, say through acts of kindness, I believe the more we learn to love ourselves. Like Lewis I believe as we join the Divine Dance we become more the True Self that God intends for us to be that Lewis so often writes about. The trick for me is to join the dance even when it is hard. My physical pain and stiffness can turn into a mental and spiritual obstacles that keeps me from the dance and therefore from God’s Love and Grace…And prevents me from loving others as I am meant to…
As I wrote in a similar post in February of 2015: Of course as we join the Dance, we immediately realize that we are all like Hobbits with big hairy feet. That is, we are a bit clumsy and step on each other’s toes occasionally. We may not be good dancers but we are invited to join the celebration anyway.
DKS