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Years ago, a young doctor who worked in the hospital
on the Navajo Indian reservation told him
an experience he had one night when
an old Native American man with long braided hair
came into the emergency room.
So how can I help you?
I can't help you if you don't speak.
Why'd you come to the hospital?
[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
As the young doctor pondered the strange question,
it occurred to him that perhaps his patient
was a tribal medicine man who, according
to ancient tribal customs, sought
to heal the sick through song and dance
rather than modern treatments.
I don't dance.
Do you dance?
But as the old medicine man well knew,
it is hard to dance without music.
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Those who dance often appear strange or awkward to those who
cannot hear the music.
The dance steps require discipline,
but the joy of the dance will only
be experienced when we come to hear the music.
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Sometimes in our homes, we successfully
teach the dance steps but are not
as successful at helping our family
members to hear the music.
If our children learn the dance steps
without learning to hear and to feel
the beautiful music of the gospel of Jesus Christ,
they will over time become uncomfortable with the dance
and will either quit dancing or, almost as bad,
will keep dancing only because of the pressure
they feel from others who are dancing around them.
The dance steps of the gospel are the things we do.
The music of the gospel is the joyful spiritual feeling
that comes from the Holy Ghost.
We learn the dance steps with our minds,
but we feel the music with our hearts.
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When we can hear the music ourselves,
we must try our best to perform it in our homes.
It is not something that can be forced or compelled.
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Our children's happiness depends on their ability
to hear and love the beautiful music of the gospel.
Can you teach me to dance?
I can teach you to dance, but you have to hear the music.
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