Are We Human or Are We Dancer?

This week, I found myself thinking about God.

Not in the usual way—not in definitions or doctrines—but as something more like an engine… something quietly sustaining everything. The tides in the ocean. The ever-expanding universe. Even the simple rhythm of my own breath.

A glue. A magnet. A melody.
Something holding it all together.

And then I caught myself trying to explain it.

I come from a tradition that attempts to understand the Divine through an old Greek word: perichoresis.
Peri, meaning “around.”
Choreo, where we get dance… choreography.

A kind of Trinitarian circle dance, if you will.

Not a system to solve—but a movement to step into.

Have you ever heard someone explain quantum physics, or a version of the creation story, or even something as ordinary as how winter softens into spring, rises into summer, and then lets go into autumn… and walked away thinking, “Oh, that’s it. Now it all makes perfect sense.”?

Probably not.

What if God was never meant to be explained—at least not with minds that want everything measured, labeled, and resolved?

So maybe as we move into the weekend—putting life under the microscope, lining things up with our rulers and protractors, deciding what we like and don’t like based on whether it passes our personal taste test—maybe there’s another way.

Maybe the invitation is simpler.

What if it’s not all meant to be explained?

What if it’s meant to be experienced… even enjoyed?

I have an endless list of songs I could play for you. And if I tried to explain every note, every lyric, every reason they matter to me—I’m almost certain it wouldn’t fully translate.

Maybe our own individual connection with the Divine is the same way.

Not something to solve. And not something to explain.

Something to sit with.
Something to listen to.
Something to feel.

Something to step into—
into the quiet, ongoing choreography
that’s been there all along.

Something…to enjoy.

If the idea of perichoresis is even remotely true, it appears that the Divine isn’t looking for or hoping for our answers, but has just cued the cosmic music and is simply looking for dancers.

Namaste,

Ashton