On watching Marion and Renee dancing for Our Lady and on hearing Cheryl sing

Such perfect symmetry of the hearts' alliance

Fluid and freeing

And full of joy



The body is moving with the life of the Spirit

Blithely revealing the passions of the soul

Here on the running grass

In the open air

Somewhere

Between kenosis and fulfilment

Somewhere

Between loss and enlargement of the heart’s gift

Somewhere

Between daily dullness in the earth’s shadow

And the bliss of offering in heaven’s light


The dancers speak for us with their fragile limbs


Leap into ecstasy

Reach into kindness

Fall into sadness


Tenderly reminding us

That we in our strange wanderings

Are beautiful to Someone

Somewhere.






Sarah de Nordwall, 8th September 2012, the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin 2012