Comments on: the dance of submission http://ylcf.org/2009/01/dance-of-submission/ YLCF Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:52:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Visionary_Maiden http://ylcf.org/2009/01/dance-of-submission/#comment-6790 Visionary_Maiden Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:38:00 +0000 http://ylcf.org/wordpress/2009/01/the-dance-of-submission/#comment-6790 Because dancing is my favorite metaphor for anything...and a comfort to my heart...I LOVE this post. What a beautiful way to think of submission... Because dancing is my favorite metaphor for anything…and a comfort to my heart…I LOVE this post. What a beautiful way to think of submission…

]]> By: Jessica http://ylcf.org/2009/01/dance-of-submission/#comment-6789 Jessica Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:59:00 +0000 http://ylcf.org/wordpress/2009/01/the-dance-of-submission/#comment-6789 Sounds like a good book! Sounds like a good book!

]]> By: Clare Marie-Therese Duroc http://ylcf.org/2009/01/dance-of-submission/#comment-6787 Clare Marie-Therese Duroc Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:30:00 +0000 http://ylcf.org/wordpress/2009/01/the-dance-of-submission/#comment-6787 As a dancer, dancing has always been my favourite analogy to submission. I think in this age of 'empowerment for women' we lose sight of the fact that submission, as laid out by St. Paul, is not degrading and restrictive, but really very beautiful and freeing.<br/><br/>I'm not married, but I've learned so much from the good example of my mother, and I look forward to one day learning how to dance with my man... he learning to lead with both firmness and gentleness (which are both necessary... the guy shouldn't be jerking and twisting the girl around the dance floor, but he needs to have a strong lead so she won't be confused), and I learning to, as you say: "follow even the most gentle hint of guidance." As a dancer, dancing has always been my favourite analogy to submission. I think in this age of ‘empowerment for women’ we lose sight of the fact that submission, as laid out by St. Paul, is not degrading and restrictive, but really very beautiful and freeing.

I’m not married, but I’ve learned so much from the good example of my mother, and I look forward to one day learning how to dance with my man… he learning to lead with both firmness and gentleness (which are both necessary… the guy shouldn’t be jerking and twisting the girl around the dance floor, but he needs to have a strong lead so she won’t be confused), and I learning to, as you say: “follow even the most gentle hint of guidance.”

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