Marriage Moats-The Real Reason for Dancing

Published: Fri, 12/02/11


Marriage Moats Caring for Marriage

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I have a suspicion. Dancing was actually invented by an international undercover cardiovascular team to coerce throngs of people into an activity that would improve the health of their hearts. If you watched the video, you saw a girl getting a pretty good work out, with no outside motivation, and she looked happy while she was doing it. Ingenious. 
 
Perhaps you know of other subversive heart thumping pursuits, cleverly disguised as sports and recreation, that entice thousands of people who would otherwise be eating chips on the couch. Yeah, yeah, they get fancy letters of recognition, and paper certificates in front of a gymnasium full of weepy parents flashing cameras, or if by chance they go professional they can earn a living at it. But you could also make big bucks at an investment company sitting in a chair that swivels, leaning behind a desk with a latte in one hand and a doughnut in the other. It would still pay the bills, and you would not even sweat.
 
It works too. People who play hockey are in better shape than the average bookworm. Rock climbers are fit enough to bounce a quarter off their bronzed chests. If ours was a world where doctors got paid when their patients were healthy rather than sick, athletic teams would have whole medical practices lining up to be sponsors. 
 
Marriage is perhaps a plot too. God wanted us to learn how to be kind, to share, and to forgive, so He invented relationships. We think we got married because it is buckets of fun, when actually it is a ton of work. We feel like we have just run a marathon with sandbags in our pockets, when all we did was negotiate the Saturday schedule for chores. There is this pull to keep slogging, much like the mysterious drive that keeps a distance runner from trading in his sneakers for a DS. We love this person, but yikes they are sometimes as annoying as push ups at 5 am. 
 
 

 

 
 
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