Time Stood Still

SABAWI: Where time stood still - December 31, 2009

Gaza one year after operation cast lead
Shadowsmodified

Don’t tell us a year has passed…
We don’t measure our lives by this calendar
Time has stood still for us so long ago
Punctuated only by loss and grief
And the in between moments of quiet reprieve
We don’t count on Christmas, nor Eid for cheer
We don’t fool ourselves with “happy new year”
No occasion is ever taken for granted,
When it comes to tomorrow, there are no certainties
Our yesterday is our today
Time is frozen here
And one calendar year
Will never contain our lives,
Our collective misery,
Our yearning for humanity
Don’t tell us a year has passed
Our clock stopped ticking when justice collapsed
Eclipsed by decades of repression
Hush… don’t speak of time
We have endured the absence of time
We don’t measure our lives by days like you
We measure our lives by the number of embraces
Our worth by a lover’s heartbeat
Our existence by our persistence
So, don’t tell us a year has passed….

Samah Sabawi is a writer playwright and poet. She was born in Gaza and is currently residing in Melbourne Australia.

Sabbath

Sabbath
Posted on August 15, 2008 in Wine Before Breakfast by Rick VanManen

It might seem a little strange to reflect on Sabbath at the beginning of a new semester. Shouldn’t Sabbath be a topic of discussion at the end of a semester, like it was at the end of creation? It seems to be a nearly inevitable fact of human nature that thoughts of Sabbath, thoughts of rest, only come to our minds when we’re already caught up in the overwhelming busyness of our lives. Then Sabbath only appears as a mirage in the distance, the possibility of a break in our routines if only we could escape them. But such escape becomes impossible when our lives, when our selves, have become trapped in the dehumanizing realities of our culture. These realities create a world of endless growth, in which we see ourselves as self-sufficient, self-made and self-actualized individuals. This perception produces in us an inhuman anxiety that overwhelms us and controls us. What shall we eat? and what shall we wear? become the questions that preoccupy our minds and our hearts as we struggle to maintain our way of life. We become overly busy and overly anxious thinking that one more committee meeting, one more practice, one more phone call, one more hour of studying, one more answered email, one more brick for Pharaoh, one more of anything will make this world a better place and enhance our sense of self.

Sabbath serves not only as a cessation of labour, as a way of stopping our frantic attempts to get ahead and stay ahead. Sabbath calls us to renounce our autonomy and our self-reliance. Sabbath allows us, or, if necessary, forces us to acknowledge a rule other than our own, a reality other than ourselves. It calls us to remember that God is at the centre of life, that life is ordered, blessed and given by a God who commands us to relinquish our control, to release our grip on the world and to desist in trying to secure the world on our own terms. But this command isn’t harsh; it’s not heavy-handed or coercive. Rather the command falls upon our ears and our hearts in gentle and humble tones:

“Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light” (Matthew 11:28-29).

Sabbath restores to us our humanity. It becomes for us an occasion in which God intervenes in our lives in new and often unexpected ways and calls us back to a real life, a radical alternative existence in which our freedom is rooted in the abundance of the God who loves us and loves creation.

So as you finalize your fall semester schedules, I encourage you to deliberately include Sabbath. Make it a part of your monthly, weekly and even daily routines. And it’s my hope that you will consider your participation in campus ministry activities as a part of your Sabbath, an opportunity to step away from the busyness of life, to be refreshed and recreated, to rest, to reorient yourself in the midst of our disorienting culture. [ This final paragraph can be easily written by you, the reader in terms of your time and circumstance ]

from - www.seekingwisdom.ca

O Come All Ye Faithful

God Who Acts

This is the first paragraph of the Preface to G.E.Wright's monogram "God Who Acts" - Biblical Theology as Recital which was published in 1951. It was published in the series "Studies in Biblical Theology No. 8" by SCM Press, London

The purpose of this monogram is to describe the special and characteristic nature of the Biblical presentation of faith and to defend the use of the word 'theology' for it. This means, however, that the term must be rescued from the exclusive and private use of the systematic theologians. To most of them, as to most others, it has meant propositional dogmatics, stated as abstractly and universally as possible and arranged in accordance with preconceived and coherent system.
Obviously, the Bible contains nothing of the sort; in fact' its writers seem completely uninterested in this type of discussion. As a result, there has been a tendency to disparage the Bible and to assume that since it belongs to a pre-logical age, it cannot be allowed to speak in its own way.
Instead it must be systematised in some manner, else its witness for the modern Church will be ineffectual. But to systematise it has meant that one has attempted to organise its data by means of a pattern of thought foreign to its nature: ie, by means of the rubrics of propositional theology. such procedure is a matter of great concern to the specialist in Biblical history because it so easily disregards the Biblical variety, change and flexibility.
It is more Hellenic than Hebraic, and the heart of Biblical faith somehow eludes it.

I have long felt the truth of this concern and find myself drawn to this work. It does not reject Systematic Theology but seeks to put it in its proper place. While propositional dogmatics was my impression of systematic theology at Theological College. A somewhat unsatisfying impression given that I was expected to go forth with such propositions and change the world. It didn't happen. The Biblical Drama and Narrative is the correct place to understand what God has said and done.

JESUS, the Identity of GOD and The War on Terror

Following the reference to The Presence of the Kingdom by Jacques Ellul and the role of Christians in that Presence I wish to invite folk to access www.ntwrightpage.com and download the following reference.
1. Jesus and the Identity of God :

2. Jesus' Self Understanding : Bishop Wright opens the significance of Temple and Torah and Jesus' connections with them as more important in understanding Jesus than traditional categories.

3. Where is God in "The War on Terror"? :

I will comment on these later BUT each is seriously important. There is a fourth reference which I have just read which is linked to 3. but in a broader context.

4. God In Public? Reflections on Faith and Society. :

The Presence of the Kingdom - Jacques Ellul

From the Europe of 1933 - 1945 the name of Dietrich Bonhoeffer is well known as faithful Christian in a world of tyranny and disaster. He is one from whom we derive great inspiration however to be fair and to balance the Christian testimony from that period the name of Jacques Ellul should be heard with Bonhoeffer. Ellul faced the enlightened world of Europe from and within France, the birthplace of the Enlightenment... the world view that among its benefits also brought us the catastrophe of the Great War 1914 - 1945 with flow on effects to this day.
"The Presence of the Kingdom" is the seminal book which allows us to engage with what is to be learnt from this Christian teacher. One who speaks prophetically to us.

THE CHRISTIAN IN THE WORLD - a unique role and function for the very existence of the world. That function is defined by Scripture in three ways:
* You are the Salt of the Earth - salt is the sign of the covenant between God and Israel (Leviticus 2:13) Thus in the sight of humanity and in the reality of the world the Christian is the visible sign of the new covenant which God has made with the world in Jesus Christ. BUT IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT THE CHRISTIAN REALLY BE THIS SIGN, THAT IN THEIR LIFE AND WORDS THEY SHOULD ALLOW THIS COVENANT TO BE MANIFEST IN THE EYES OF HUMANITY. Apart from this Covenant the earth will feel bereft of any covenant .. The fact that Christians are in their lives the "Salt of the Earth" does more for the preservation of the world than any other external action.

* You are the Light of the World - "and the light shines in the darkness and the darkness does not apprehend it ( John 1:5) Light separates Life and Death cf Matthew 5: 14 - 16 where good works are noted. the Light reveals what good works really are.
The Light of the World gives meaning and direction to the history of the world. Revealing the world's true condition.

* I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves - here again the Christian is a 'sign' of the reality of God's actions. It is the Lamb of God - Jesus - who takes away the sin of the world. But every Christian is to be treated like their Master, and every Christian receives a share in His work. Christians are "Sheep" not because their actions or their sacrifice has a purifying effect on the world, but because they are a Living and Real sign constantly renewed in the midst of the world, of the sacrifice of the Lamb of God.
In the world everyone wants to be a wolf, and no one is called to play the part of the sheep. Yet the world cannot live without this living witness of sacrifice

Gifts of love

From the film "As It Is In Heaven" ... from the Lord's Prayer. Directed by Kay Pollak.
Daniel Deraus a famous conductor returns to his birthplace in Northern Sweden. During his return he gives gifts to a church choir, various members of the choir and one special gift to Gabriella ( Helen Sjoholm ).This gift was a song sung for a concert at the "Let the People Sing" competition in Innsbruk, Austria. It is a study of gifts given and received and how others respond to a gift given to another which allows joy and gladness to come. Gabriella receives a thrashing from her husband after a presentation in the local Hall. No prizes for guessing who he is from the sequence of the film shown.
Another character: Arne (Lennart Jähkel), who is so serious about the choir's success that he obsesses over tiny mistakes when what he doesn't realise is that he is making bigger mistakes himself; .... ouch.
Connie, Gabriella's husband places himself in Hell. He became a bully as a child, remains one through his life and then finds it impossible to recognise LOVE either in the gift offered to his wife, or in her love for him expressed even in her look towards him at the end of her song.

I have never lost who I was
I have only left it sleeping
Maybe I never had a choice
Just the will to stay alive

The film is a must see film.

Lino Vamvakoi

I collected this story from www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk It is a website well worth a visit.

Notes from the Global Church July 14, 2009
The crypto-Christians
by Philip Jenkins
For most American Christians, restraints on the open expression of religious loyalties normally involve situations in which believers might be seen as imposing their views on others—through evangelism in the workplace or school, perhaps. But in many parts of Africa and Asia, in societies dominated by other religions or by militant atheist regimes, Christians experience such negative pressure that they refrain from even admitting they are Christians. Millions survive as crypto-Christians.
Just how common these covert believers are is a mystery. In theory, hidden believers should be immune to study, as they would never break cover; the people who can be studied are only the less discreet. But we often do hear of crypto-Christians, and the stories are startling. According to the World Christian Encyclopedia, as of 2000 Syria's Christian population was fewer than 5 percent, but most observers think that number is far too low. And the true number has surely risen with the influx of Christian Iraqi refugees. A million semiclandestine Iraqi believers would raise the size of the Christian minority to at least 10 or 12 percent.
In India, some guess the number of crypto-Christians is 20 million. Worldwide, the crypto-Christian population runs well into the tens of millions. For what it's worth, the World Christian Encyclopedia speaks of 120 million hidden believers. If that figure is right, crypto-Christians would by themselves constitute one of the world's largest religious groups.
Although many of these believers are isolated individuals and families, some sizable communities have demonstrated astonishing powers of survival. In the 17th century, the Buddhist/Shinto nation of Japan annihilated a Catholic missionary presence that seemed to be on the verge of converting the nation. After persecutions that killed tens of thousands—even a suspicion of Christian loyalty could lead to execution—the organized church presence was destroyed by 1680. Yet many thousands of "hidden Chris tians," Kakure Kirishitan, some how maintained their secret traditions in remote fishing villages and island communities, and they continue to this day.
This catacomb church strayed from mainstream Catholicism, and many of its practices make it look like a Shinto sect: its eucharistic elements are rice, fish and sake. Its followers once knew nothing of the wider church, believing themselves to be the world's only true Christians. The stunning 1997 documentary Otaiya allows us to hear very old believers reciting Catholic prayers that first came to the region over 400 years ago—some recalled in church Latin and 16th-century Portuguese. Believers lovingly display a fragment of a silk robe once worn by one of the martyred European fathers. The film shows us the two last living members of the indigenous hereditary priesthood, both frail men in their 90s—the distant successors of St. Francis Xavier and the Jesuit pioneers.
Jesus reportedly warned his followers never to deny him publicly, lest he deny them at the Day of Judgment. Throughout the history of Christianity, though, conquests and revolutions have repeatedly led to persecutions and forced conversions, and at least some Christians have responded by maintaining a subterranean faith. When the Muslim Ottomans overran the Balkans and the Near East, many Christian believers publicly accepted Islam but continued to practice their true faith at night and in secret places. They became Lino vamvakoi: they were like a cloth in which cotton (vamvaki) was covered by linen (lino), so that they showed only one side at a time.
The phenomenon of crypto-Christianity is likely to become much more common in the coming decades. Defensive tactics are scarcely needed when the vast majority of Christians live in self-defined Christian nations, but they become acutely relevant when millions of believers live in deeply hostile environments, in societies that are (for instance) predominantly Muslim or Hindu.
That is especially likely in a global age, when the faith is spreading rapidly in Africa and Asia, powered by new forms of media and electronic communication. In turn, the rapid spread of Christianity inspires opposition from other established faiths and ideologies. In the worst cases, believers can survive only by practicing concealment and subterfuge, however they reconcile that behavior with the text of scripture. Whatever the prognosis, crypto-Christianity is an important—and evocative—part of the worldwide Christian story.
Philip Jenkins teaches at Penn State University.

The CITY ..... noise, bustle, anonymity yet !!

I come to the garden ....... noise in the background but a moment to enjoy.

Time to pause awhile to reflect ... to pray.

In a London church ... details later.
"In memory of people with haemophilia who have died as a result of treatment with contaminated blood products."
Remember those who died, yes, but remember family members left mourning, and those in medical practice who carry the pain of a failed procedure to heal.
Lord, Hear our prayer.

The ... A ... Cathedral

Memory fails me - ( No longer It was a painting by Fernand Cormon : "Une Forge") but a visit to the Queensland Art Gallery a few years back had a painting of the inside of a factory which was cathedral like. On a walk with Katrina we came to this power station which reminded me of this 19th Century secular statement of power. Like many church buildings it is a failed building.
Seeing I had this photo I wish to anticipate revisiting and reflecting on this modern, but not post-modern architectual "monster"

Old Testament revisited ... to read again

I have noted in an earlier post that Walter Brueggemann is worth reading. He provides great and refreshing readings from and of the Old Testament.


On the Primary Tension of Old Testament Faith

"The traditions of Israel's faith are in interaction between the full assertion of common theology, which is relentlessly contractual, and the protest [and pain] against it...."

"There is a restlessness in Israel that seeks to move through and beyond or against the common theology, and that restlessness is articulated in Israel's practice of lament.. Israel's lament is a way of protesting against the common theology. The lament in Israel is a way of asserting that the structure cannot always be legitimated and that the pain needs also to be embraced. This pain, when brought to public speech, impinges upon every structure and serves to question the legitimacy of the structure."

"In risking this form of speech, the conventional distribution of power is called into question. It is no longer placidly assumed that God has all the power and the covenant partner must simply submit...."

"In the risk there emerges a new mode of faith between Yahweh and Israel....One never knows, until the bold act is done, whether one has gone too far. Any new speech of this kind that is boldly probing may be the probe that goes too far and evokes the rage of the legitimated one under attack. The regular experience of Israel, however, is that in the moment of honest risk, Israel characteristically discovers that the speech is not only not resisted, but it is taken seriously in a way that permits a newness."

"In the public utterance of such pain, both parties emerge with freshness. Obedience turns out to be not blind, submissiveness required by common theology. It is rather a bold protest against a legitimacy that has grown illegitimate because it does not seriously take into account the suffering reality of the partner. Where the reality of suffering is not dealt with, legitimate structure is made illegitimate when the voice of pain assumes enough authority to be heard."

"Old Testament theology, as distinct from sociological, literary, or historical analysis, must assume some realism in the text - that the poets and narrators in Israel do, in fact, speak the mind of God. God's mind is not closed on this question, because God in Israel must decide about the practice of contractual theology and the embrace of pain that permits and requires life outside the contract...."

"So far as Christian extrapolations are concerned, the challenge of pain-embrace to structure legitimacy is presented in the symbol of the cross; but symbols can be misused. The cross is claimed to disclose God's true character as the source out of which new life comes, and yet the language and claims of a theology of the cross are now used to justify a theology of imperial exploitation that ruthlessly condemns pain and sees competence as the stuff of humanness. Such theology, when not criticized and corrected, lacks compassion toward those who are not capable of effective function. In our contemporary values, therefore, just as in the faith of ancient Israel, there is a moving back and forth between the assertion of common theology and the anguish about it, an anguish that protests against it."

"The laments are not widely used among us, not printed in most hymnals, not legitimated in our theology. Many Christians think the laments are superseded by some christological claim. We have in practice reneged on the bold break made in Israel's protest against the common theology. Unwittingly, by silencing the break of embraced pain, we have embraced the uncritical faith of structure legitimization. Much biblical faith, as commonly held, has in fact become a support for the status quo by using a theological mode that understands God primarily in the categories of structure legitimization. Such a move is reflected in both liturgical use, where the laments have largely fallen out of the repertoire, and in popular theology as reflected in the catechisms, to say nothing of popular proclamation."

from Old Testament Theology: Essays on Structure, Theme, and Text, pp. 18-9, 21.

- Walter Brueggemann.


( please note it was actually posted at 17.22hrs in Brisbane Australia. Not 12:22

A Visit to an Exhibition

Jocelyn and I visited the American Impressionist and Realist Exhibition at the Brisbane Art Gallery on 1st July 2009. So much to see and enjoy. The works of Childe Hassam, John Singer Sargeant and many others.
I was glad we went, taking our own time, joining a guide from time to time, returning to view again. We found the presentation of Australian artists, mainly from the Heidelberg School, a valuable contrast especially given the same time period. The conversation noted below in the Crucifixion story provided one significant connection. Sargeant's wedding gift to the young lady in the portrait was a highlight for Jocelyn.

Crucifixion

This crucifix in a church in Colmar (Kolmar) is perhaps the one spoken of by a friend I made at the Brisbane exhibition of the American Impressionist and Realist painters. A conversation began because we were both taking notes ... for the same reason .... memory failure ... hopefully the notes would jog the failing facility. He had been a committed footballer and a Vietnam vet, but could not talk about Vietnam. I asked him how art had impacted on his life and what it meant to him in addressing Vietnam. "Hard to say" he said but he then spoke of many visits to European galleries and his enjoyment of investigating information about the artists. Art had become a form of healing for him. Then he spoke of THE highlight for him. "Go to Basle then catch a train to Colmar." There you will see the most amazing picture ( I did not pick up whether it was painting or crucifix) True suffering, even the cross beam was bent. More than just physical suffering.
He doesn't attend church now .. too many questions relating to suffering and evil in mankind. I encouraged him to remember this picture / image. For in Christ's suffering is the clue to all other suffering and all loss.

Sustainability into 2020

I have hesitated to do this entry - Father supporting son however James has ventured on a Journey less travelled but one which all of us individually and corporately should be commencing. I will review and edit this story as new things emerge.
The first invitation is to visit his webpage www.jswanston.wordpress.com/ where he has spelt out some of that vision for sustainability as well as an introduction to other interests he has.
Then visit www.carbonvoyage.com/ . Here an invitation to consider a new way of travel in London. This does not exclude the experience of the double-deck London bus. However getting from A to B in a carbon friendly way and with a prospect of a cheaper fare will I am sure be to your liking.

Music as Unexpected Delight

Katrina reminded me of this the other day on her Facebook site when she reported hearing a busker play a favourite song. That he played in the tube area was the unexpected but it gave her great delight. The story of music on this blog indicates many others for me.
The photo above I took in a side room of a large hotel in Beijing where we were staying in 1991. I bought 4 cups of coffee to allow me to listen. A magical moment.
Coming home from a Scout Jamboree in Melbourne .... it was 2.00am in the morning as the train came into Junee Railway Station. I could hear the sound before we reached the station. I was awake and thrilled. A Jazz Festival had descended onto the station. Stunning, marvellous ... I relived the experience for many years. The rest of the journey to Sydney and then to Lithgow was a Jazz filled dream.
The Doch Gipsy Orchestra concert to which Jocelyn and I had been invited was simply JOY. That we had been invited to a meal and concert was special but to listen to such a variety of sound kept fingers and toes moving all evening. Another remarkable aspect of this evening was the way each section of the band played solo items which delighted the rest of the band. They as individuals responded with great enthusiasm for the individual contributions to the concert. Sadly I learn from friend Christie that the band no longer exists. The core group has moved on to other ventures.
The East European band on the walk along the Thames three weeks back was again a special occasion. The demands of family members to move on was reluctantly agreed to .... I could have stayed much longer.
The music at Holy Trinity Brompton on Good Friday belongs here as well. Choirs and soloists contributed to a very special occasion.
Obviously this entry will be edited from time to time. I acknowledge that to play CD or tape of favourite music will always bring pleasure and memories but there remains a special place for all of us from Music as Unexpected Delight.

EASTER IN LONDON, 2009

Good Friday: Jocelyn and I attended a three hour service of Readings, Meditations, Music and Reflection at Holy Trinity Brompton. This is a church associated with the Alpha programme. Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia gave the meditations. We stayed for the three hours. His meditations were worth a second and third listen. The music was superb - a note on this later. Following the reading from John 19: 25 - 30 the meditation was "The Victory of Love" - It is finished. Then the organist played "Darkness" from Messiaen's Le Livre du Saint Sacrament. Confronting, disturbing Word and Music together in a way that we combine Word and Sacrament. The time for reflection was real time and appreciated.

On Sunday - James and Katrina joined us at St Paul's Onslow Square. Again, a special time.

Bishop Tom Wright's sermon on Easter Sunday at Durham Cathedral is excellent and worth your attention. He entitles the sermon - Let Beauty Awake. In his book "Surprised By Hope" Bishop Wright spells out three themes that should shape the mission of the Church : Justice - Beauty - Proclamation of the Gospel to ignore one is to mis-shape its mission. The Gospel is : Christ is Lord, Caesar is not, therefore you can come home. This echoes the Gospel which Isaiah proclaimed to the Jews in captivity in Babylon. God has won the victory; God is King therefore you can go home. The invitation to come home is a most wonderful way to describe Salvation. Read his Easter sermon here: www.ntwrightpage.com/sermons/Easter09.htm

Tree of Life

This sculpture was made by Kester, Hilario Nhatugueja, Fiel dos Santos and Adelino Serafim Mate Maputo, Mozambique 2004. It is a product of the Transforming Arms into Tools TAE project and is made from decommissioned weapons.

TAE was set up by Bishop Dom Dinis Sengulane in 1995 and is supported by Christian Aid. During Mazambique's civil war which lasted from 1976 to 1992, millions of guns and other weapons poured into the country and most of them remain hidden or buried in the bush. The project is an attempt to eliminate the threat presented by the hidden weapons. Mozambicans are encouraged to hand them over in exchange for items like ploughs, bicycles and sewing machines. In one case a village gave up its weapons in exchange for a tractor.

Once the weapons are decommissioned, they are cut up and turned into sculptures by the artists in Maputo. This process has produced the Tree of Life and the Throne of Weapons also created by Kester.

Now located in the British Museum. Well worth a visit and should you do, STOP and spend some time in reflection. Those weapons caused untold damage and the deaths of thousands of people. Isaiah spoke of a time when weapons would be turned into plough-shares. While that time is yet to be all of us must give ourselves to doing what we can in the situations where we find ourselves to demonstrate what this means and can mean for others.

Wise Men Came

A belated Christmas greeting but one well meant.

The story is long told and the journey is well trod ..... each year, in fact. Of course, they remember one journey taken long ago.
For the last many years this scene is what would have been found.

Their Voice Cries out into Noise and Silence

This is a powerful image of two Gazan sisters .. Palestinians found on the website www.palestinechronicle.com .... may be they are dead now. Condemned by the mighty as terrorists because they are Palestinians. This must not continue. I have included them as part of my family (on facebook ) to in some way embrace them. Will you?
The noise is that of blitzkreig over Gaza. The Silence is the decision of the powerful.

I hasten to note that the photo was taken by Zoriah .... cf www.zoriah.com I have written to him to ask if he knows anything of these two girls since the blitzkreig. Zoriah has replied and indicated the girls live in Beach camp, Gaza and while he does not know what has happened to them he will seek to find out.

The Dancer

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This drawing is the work of Rick Ball, a fine Australian artist who has 'gone missing' .. we think, at least in the art world which is a sad loss. ( Sunday 11th January 2009 .... I discovered by referring to google.com.au .. that Rick is not missing AND he is not lost to the world of Art. For me - no, for Jocelyn and I - both of these statements are important. We valued our contact with him as person and as I noted in the side notes of this blogspot I valued him as teacher / aesthete ... it was more than art )
While this drawing has a particular title it belongs to a number of works Rick drew connected to "David's Dance" ... King David's 'uninhibited display of exuberance recorded in 2 Samuel 6.
The thought of a political leader dancing and leaping with joy before God appealed to Rick"

cf reference in Dawn Mendham's book "The Refining Fire" an Albatross publication 0 86760 035 7.

You might consider a visit to Rick's website www.rickball.com.au

This drawing draws attention to one who is severely limited yet he / she ... the figure also dances. Yes, he may not achieve yet he continues to reach out ... to dance.