A Prayer for Dancers

O God, you set the stars to dance over the skies, and the the planets to waltz in their orbits. Because I have the dust of the stars in my bones, let me join that eternal dance. Amen.

– Kristen Johnson Ingram
Excerpted from Chapter 4, "A Prayer a Dancer Does,"
in Beyond Words: 15 Ways of Doing Prayer

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• To Dance . . .
• The Soul of a Dancer
• The Art of Dancing as the Supreme Symbol of the Spiritual Life
• Aristotle Papanikolaou on How Being Religious is Like Being a Dancer
• The Potential of Art and the Limits of Orthodoxy to Connect Us to the Sacred
• Move Us, Loving God
• A Kind of Dancing Divinity
• Balance: The Key to Serenity and Peace
• The Premise of All Forms of Dance
• Not Whether We Dance, But How
• "I Came Alive with Hope"
• The Dancer and the Dance
• And As We Dance . . .

Image 1: Samuele Berbenni by Merien Morey.
Image 2: Photographer unknown.