#TBH: To Be Heard

So the wedding bells have rang and my dance has been danced...umm...so I am struggling with how to start off these posts.  Anywhoo, in the last dance update I told you that I was going to be dancing in a wedding.  (One of my sisters from church asked me to dance at her and my cousin's wedding.) Do you remember?  Well, the wedding has come and I did it! It was such an honor for her to ask me to do that for her! Before I went out, the groom's dad prayed with me and the groom, the best man, and one of my Pastors gave me a pep talk.  They told me to go out there, have fun, and think about it as worship.  I went and did just that.  I didn't worry about all of the people looking at me or what I looked like, I just danced! Of course afterwards I critiqued it and wish I hadn't watched it but in the moment there was no one else in the room besides me and an audience of One ;) The video link is below as well as a pic of me and the beautiful bride! Stay tuned for mor...

***Drum roll please**** I'm going to school for dance!!! Ahhhh! So I decided that if I don't take the opportunity to follow this dream now I will let fear and hesitation get in the way and I'd live in regret.  I honestly would rather try and fail than to not even try at all.  I will be attending NCCU in August and will be studying Physical Education with a concentration in Dance Teacher Education.  The goal will be to teach dance in the school system afterwards.  It's definitely going to be a stretch for me but I know that it will help me to become more disciplined. Also, one of my sisters from church asked me to dance at her wedding!! When she asked me, my stomach started to hurt and I got so nervous.  After several words of affirmation I told her I'd do it!  It's so crazy that people see in you what you don't see! She told me to just flow and not think about it as a performance.  That's something I want to keep in mind as I start this dance educa...

Since my last post I've been dancing quite a bit.  I've had the privilege of dancing at a women's event at my church, one of my brother's initial sermon, and with a dance company called Shammah.  Below are a couple of pictures from my dance recital with Shammah, January 16, 2015.  I'm currently working on a dance with my church's dance ministry known as Divine Destiny Dance Ministry as well as the choreography for my church's youth mime ministry.   After these two pieces are complete I have decided to take a break from dance for a while.  I want to focus on growing in God more and seeking Him to allow his will for my life and dance to come to pass.  I will be praying about my next steps and I hope you'll be praying.  Stay tuned! Here's a link to a video of a snippet of the dance I did, with one of my sisters, for our brother's initial sermon (I hope the link works): https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10205995831045863&id=156...

The previous blog was something that came to me on my way to my dance class in Raleigh.  Those of you who know me know that I have a desire to dance.  I'm not the best dancer but I love doing it! Dancing makes me feel so free and more sociable.  Lately, I've been really pursuing that desire and trying to see what God wants to do with it.  Some things I've tried haven't worked out, some have.  On this "dream chase" I've noticed that an encouraging word or story comes to me while driving to or from my destination.  I decided that I should start logging those encouraging tidbits and share them.  This blog will contain those inspiring messages I collect along my journey. SN: I started this blog because often times I feel like I'm not heard.  I'm not the most verbally articulate so sometimes I don't even say all of what I want to say and it's frustrating but I figured if I write out what's on my heart someone will read it and I'll be ...

I love analogies! I get hype when I find the connections between two different things.  That's why I really enjoy parables, which is a type of analogy often defined as earthly stories with heavenly meanings.  They make the simple things in life seem so profound! I was on my way to Raleigh last Saturday, riding on I-40E.  Starting around Exit 293, I believe, the Division of Highways has begun to widen the highway.  Cosmetically, in order to widen it, they needed to remove the white lines and pavement reflectors indicating the old lanes to then put down the new lines and reflectors to indicate the new lanes.  I'm assuming that the pavement underneath the lines and reflectors had to be torn up in order to remove them because the highway was scarred. You can still see the imprints of the old lines and reflectors.  Driving on this new highway was a little scary because riding on the scarred part makes you feel like your tires aren't steady.  I felt like I...