David danced before the LORD with all his might… – 2 Samuel 6:14
Kick your heels up, David,
send the linen skirted ephod swinging.
Wheel and circle, drum your feet
in time with tambourines and cymbals.
Some will scorn you in your very house,
and some will watch in silent disapproval.
Some will wonder how you dance when death
struck down a helping hand last time.
What else to do but dance? you cry.
The presence of the LORD has blessed
the places where the mercy seat has paused.
So what to do but dance with joy as it comes home?
Whirling skirts and pounding feet.
Flying fringe and soaring hair.
Kick your heels up, David. Dance!
And bring us blessing in our heart and home.
The image is Transfer of the Ark of the Covenant by David by Paul Troger (1733), a fresco in the Altenburg Abbey Church, Altenburg, Austria. Photo by Wolfgang Sauber (2018) – File:Altenburg_Stiftskirche_-_Fresko_David_und_die_Bundeslade.jpg, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=77865740.
ordainedgeek 
Fantastic … it almost tempts me to go there to preach (I decided on Amos) and says so much about the crazy imperfect church and its need to celebrate!
There’s a lot of complexity in this story, which can be said of a lot of the David stories. It makes this extravagant dance stand out to me.