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Tap Dancing on the Moon!

The more one knows oneself, the more one sees oneself as a joke, when measured by the love and mercy of God.

As Soren Kierkegaard says, "the more thoroughly and substantially a human being exists, the more he will discover the comical."  This joke, this comical being who is myself, can remain the sustained object of my humor only through faith and conversion that is nurtured by prayer.  Humanly speaking the last thing I want to know well is myself.  I would prefer to escape this knowledge and its consequences by being amused at the expense of others.  Self-directed humor demands honesty, a willingness to recognize personal failings and attempts to hide them from others.  Any endeavor to cover our faults and stupidities is an example of incongruity and therefore a reason to laugh at ourselves.  Fundamentalists cannot laugh at themselves; if they do so they risk having to question their rigid as assumptions about reality.

"Tap Dancing on the Moon"     bookings@itaplive.com

       This particular Dance beckons the imagination and God's humor. 

       When we are in a festive spirit and laughing we can escape from our usually worried, introverted selves into a calming state of being, and the humorous mood melts the rigidity of our imagination and narrow horizons.  In consequence it disposes us to be open to all kinds of unforeseen creative dreams. 

     Play is a type of relaxing humor.  Play, which is open to people of all ages, is any activity that is voluntary, gives pleasure, and has no goal other than the enjoyment of all involved.  Winning at play is not its primary purpose.  In play we flee from the seriousness of everyday affairs, and the relaxing experience disposes us to creative questioning of our structured lives. 

[Example of 'play in Scripture' - Psalm 8:2; Psalm 131:2; Isaiah 7:14-16; Luke 2:11-12; Mark 10:16; Mark 19:13-15; Matthew 18:4]

TAP DANCIN’ ON THE MOON

 You got to move so slowly here
There ain’t much gravity,
there ain’t no air

And little “green men”
just stand around and stare at us

“Tap dancin’ on the moon.”

 You could have a good time
If you take a trip

All you got to have is your own rocket ship

Get some friends and
come along       
and do it real soon

You could be
     “tap dancing on the moon” 

You can have more fun
than in your wildest fantasy

Folks drop in from all the
neighboring galaxies

And they party all nite long
cos they love to get it on

A night on the moon
You know is
two weeks long

Well you don’t have to be graceful
The gravity takes care of that
Twenty feet up in the air
You can do a pirouette

Set yourself down anywhere
There’s plenty room

when you’re tap dancing on the moon

 

 

You can have more fun
than in your wildest fantasy

Folks drop in from all the neighboring galaxies

And they party all nite long
cos they love to get it on

A night on the moon
You know is

two weeks long

So get out your tails
And dust off your old top hat

Buy yourself a space suit
All sorts of stuff like that

And have yourself a ball

When you find out where it’s really at  [God in Heaven!]

Just a tap dancing on the moon 

You can have more fun
than in your wildest fantasy

Folks drop in from all the neighboring galaxies

And they party all nite long
cos they love to get it on

A night on the moon
You know is

two weeks long

You got to move so slowly here
There ain’t much gravity,
there ain’t no air

And little “green men”
just stand around and stare at us

“Tap dancin’ on the moon.”

Whoa little green men

just stand around and stare at us

Tap dancin’ on the moon.

Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, till I declare your power to the next generation, your might to all who are to come."  Psalm 71:17    Rose Center Theatre, Ms. Senior California
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