The
Dance

I have sent you my invitation,
the note inscribed on the palm of my hand by the fire of living.
Don’t jump up and shout, “Yes, this is what I want! Let’s
do it!”
Just stand up quietly and dance with me.

Show me how you follow your deepest desires,
spiraling down into the ache within the ache,
and I will show you how I reach inward and open outward
to feel the kiss of the Mystery, sweet lips on my own, every day.

Don’t tell me you want to hold the whole world in your heart.
Show me how you turn away from making another wrong without abandoning
yourself when you are hurt and afraid of being unloved.

Tell me a story of who you are,
and see who I am in the stories I live.
And together we will remember that each of us always has a choice.

Don’t tell me how wonderful things will be . . . some day.
Show me you can risk being completely at peace,
truly okay with the way things are right now in this moment,
and again in the next and the next and the next. . .

I have heard enough warrior stories of heroic daring.
Tell me how you crumble when you hit the wall,
the place you cannot go beyond by the strength of your own will.
What carries you to the other side of that wall, to the fragile beauty
of your own humanness?

And after we have shown each other how we have set and kept the clear,
healthy boundaries that help us live side by side with each other, let
us risk remembering that we never stop silently loving
those we once loved out loud.

Take me to the places on the earth that teach you how to dance,
the places where you can risk letting the world break your heart.
And I will take you to the places where the earth beneath my feet and
the stars overhead make my heart whole again and again.

Show me how you take care of business
without letting business determine who you are.
When the children are fed but still the voices within and around us shout
that soul’s desires have too high a price,
let us remind each other that it is never about the money.

Show me how you offer to your people and the world
the stories and the songs
you want our children’s children to remember.
And I will show you how I struggle not to change the world,
but to love it.

Sit beside me in long moments of shared solitude,
knowing both our absolute aloneness and our undeniable belonging.
Dance with me in the silence and in the sound of small daily words,
holding neither against me at the end of the day.

And when the sound of all the declarations of our sincerest
intentions has died away on the wind,
dance with me in the infinite pause before the next great inhale
of the breath that is breathing us all into being,
not filling the emptiness from the outside or from within.

Don’t say, “Yes!”
Just take my hand and dance with me.

--- Oriah Mountain Dreamer

I really cannot express how much fun Barefoot Parties has been so far. I have been a consultant for probably six other direct sales companies in my life and have never had such a good time.

Saturday I had my first "official" party. We had a wonderful time and I met some very inspirational women. I left the party with more energy than I arrived with. There is really nothing like spending time with friends and earning money and life experience in the process.

This Friday I have another party scheduled and my sponsor is going to be there with me. I can’t wait. My goal for this party is to be confident and relaxed. I know that if I do that, the rest will take care of itself!

Dream Big!!!!!

Posted By:Angie

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IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?
So, here's how it works:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie and try to pretend your cool...

Angel..s Answers->

Opening Credits:
And the Gods Heard Her Prayer- Once On This Island

Waking Up:
Not a spot where god is not-Margaret Owens

First Day At School:
A Real Nice Clambake- Carousel

Falling In Love:
Entr'Acte- Andrew Lloyd Webber

Fight Song:
Pieces of You- Jewel

Breaking Up:
As Long as Your Mine- Wicked

Prom:
Boats Against the Current- Olivia Newton John

Life's OK:
Beauty and the Beast-Beauty and the Beast

Mental Breakdown:
Not Since Nineveh-Robert Wright & George Forrest

Driving:
How-Lisa Loeb

Flashback:
A Model of Docorum and Tranquility- Chess

Getting Back Together:
Once Upon a Dream- Sleeping Beauty

Wedding:
Try to Believe- Oingo Boingo

Birth of Child:
Who do you want to be Today-Oingo Boingo

Final Battle:
Grey Matter- Oingo Boingo

Death Scene:
Amen- Jewel

Funeral Song:
I saw Mommy Kissing Santa Clause- The Mistletunes :)

End Credits:
Just a Girl- No Doubt


Very fun.