Here with us

So if you haven't heard it, listen to Joy William's "Here with us". I know it's a little early for Christmas, but if you're going to perform a Christmas dance you choreograph it early, so I've been listening to it a LOT. To me, dances to lyrical music (or music with lyrics rather) should be a painting or physical demonstration of the lyrics. I usually listen to the music purely instrumentally a few times first to see if any sort of movement quality stands out to me or if I feel like moving a certain way; if I do, I know it will be easy to choreograph to. This one moved me, but I didn't feel any specific movement coming out of the instruments... too many swells and such, hard to emulate with the human body since we can't artificially suspend ourselves : ) Next comes the words. The words to this song are really good. The theology is sound and the thoughts for me are awe inspiring, especially being pregnant and anticipating this little person coming into the world and relying so heavily on me. How crazy for Mary! I wonder how much she knew... did she know how her baby would die? Did she know, when she ran to him at night answering his cry that he was here to answer the cry of the souls of man? Did she anticipate how helpless she would be to prevent his suffering and dying for sins and wrongs not his own? Could she know as she rocked him and nursed him, that he was there to die for her? I almost hope for her sake she didn't... I can't imagine what that pain of knowledge would feel like. You know a song is good when it moves you more the more you listen to it. I'm not sick of it yet; hopefully Alyssa isn't either. I hope God will use my skill (what little I have) and move through it and through Alyssa's young body and convey these thoughts to the women who see the dance.