The very first miracle that Jesus performed according to Scripture sits in John 2. Tucked away in a short chapter that takes place at a wedding, it happens so fast and we’ve heard it so many times, that it almost sounds nonchalant. It wasn’t a miracle of life-saving proportions. It was a practical miracle. The…
Probably the chapter I have read most in the Bible is chapter one…right there, literally, “in the beginning…”… the story of God creating. Typically somewhere between Exodus and Leviticus, I lose my gusto for my reading plan that year, and I go off the plan, needing more Psalms and New Testament. And the next year, I…
When I was first starting out my ballet career, I studied under one of my very favorite teachers of all time, Truman Finney. His classes were so simple, yet so hard, but all in the best kind of way. We literally did the same exercises at the barre every single day for the entire year….
For dancers, the mirror is part of the gig. As I reflect back over my dancing years, I realize that it is quite normal as dancers to check ourselves in the mirror for all the wrong reasons. The mirror is there to help us correct our lines and movement, but too often, the mirror becomes a…
Throughout my dancing years, there were many days when ballet class felt monotonous. Same set of plies, same set of tendues, rond de jambes over and over and over…mirrors staring back at me, muscles unhappy with me, and my heart feeling the mundane-ness of a habit of ballet class that was not optional. Give me…
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. God saw that the light was good…” Genesis 1:1-4a…