you danced!

 

                   

Video at You Danced or the BB Store




Story behind "You Danced"


OK, picture this... seven white guys in a van, deep in the bush of Sierra Leone, Africa, one of the poorest countries in the world.  My group was going to visit some of the villages we've "adopted" in a partnership with World Vision. So we get to the first village, with no running water and no electricity, I'm talking the poorest of the poor. And all the residents were waiting outside the village to greet us with singing & dancing! I jumped out of the van and joined the dance! I was swept into their joy.

Amidst those desparate conditions, they had joy?! They clearly share some secret with Heaven that I don't get. Paul knew the secret too. Check out Phil 4:12 - "For I have learned the secret of being content in any circumstance...". We thought we were going to "save the Africans". Turns out they're saving me, and teaching me about the secret of joy.


Lyrics


I walked among your people / I held your mud-stained hands
I touched your hungry children / When I traveled to your land
You drank your dirty water / I thought my heart might break
From all your desperate poverty / Then you left me amazed, when

You danced / Threw your hands up in the air and laughed
At a secret you and heaven share
You danced / With a joy that I just could not understand
In a simple act of praise / You danced

What time have I been wasting / Pursuing happiness
Yet never really learning / To be content with less
I want to learn the secret / Of those who danced for me
With beautiful abandon / I want to be that free

Chorus

If we stay close / Close to the source and drink from that well
The well that flows / Flows with the spring of life itself
Then the fullness of joy will be ours

We'll dance / Throw our hands up in the air and laugh
At a secret we and heaven share
We'll dance / With a joy deeper than we understand
In a simple act of praise
With our hearts so full of thanks / We'll dance

© 2008  Staci Frenes/Brian Bates