Concert poster

Comotion/Emotion is the name of the concert we are going to perform last week. It will be 2 days of performance. On Tuesday all of us will perform our solo and on Friday is the big concert when we will perform all our pieces so far.

If you are in the area, please stop by to see us perform.


Concert Poster SODS10

Kindness is contagious

My hardest day....

Today was what I will call my hardest day since being here so far. But it might not be what you would think of as the hardest day.

If you know me, you know that from since I can remember I have struggled with recurring headaches. Most of the time including most of this school I ignore it and act as if nothing happened. This way I don't have to hear "I'm sorry and hope you feel better soon" all throughout my day because this only make me feel inadequate.

In the past week though it has gotten to the point that I couldn't ignore it anymore. I pretty much was in some kind of pain all of last week and by Friday I decided to stop taking so much medicine and actually accept the fact that I am in pain. This was so hard for me to do. Nevertheless I did it. And my classmates and staff were so nice to me, really taking good care of me.

But the hardest day was today. I woke up with an headache again and it was so frustrating. By the time I was getting ready for ballet my head was pounding and I knew I couldn't participate. After one of my classmates prayed for me I went to class (wearing my ballet attire) to tell my staff how I feel. Her response was so loving yet extremely hard for me to take in. She told me that she has seen how hard I have been working and that she wants me to "slack off" a little bit until I feel better.

Slacking off? Sheedia? That is THE hardest thing for me to do. I am a person that always try to perform at the best of my ability. But sometimes I take it too far and end up stressing out and actually having to stop for a moment.

It made me think a lot though. Do we serve a God that makes us work and feel so stressed that we get sick? From my experience the answer to this question is "NO".

And if you are not sure how to answer that question, just check out Ps. 127:1-2 & Matt. 6:25-34.

The last thing I learned through this experience is that God did not make me to be inadequate. He will not ask of us more that we can bear. We just need to seek Him and ask Him for help on how to deal with what He has given us.