Candice's Comments

As we prepare to welcome a new calendar year, this poem based on Isaiah 61:10-11, invites us to rejoice. The prophet Isaiah expresses great happiness because of God’s saving actions in creation. Let us

resolve in 2015 to dance and celebrate God!

Dance and Celebrate God

I will be happy about God!

With my whole being,

I will dance and I celebrate my God!

For God dressed me in clothes of

fairness, honesty, loving kindness, and peace;

as beautiful as a wedding couple

decked out in flowers, jewels, and best clothes.

With joy, we watch as the earth sends up green shoots;

like a garden sown with seeds blossoms

God makes justice/fairness and its fruits blossom,

and people all over the world see.

I cannot keep silent – I cannot rest

for the sake of God’s beloved people.

I must dance, celebrate, and praise –

until God’s way of love shines like the newborn day.

Dancing and Celebrating God,

     Candice