Abigail's Dance

Abigail with her dance instructors, Ms. Dana and Miss Shaun.

We have been so blessed by Abigail participating in dance at Cathedral Oaks Dance Arts this year. Each week during class, Ms. Dana shared a devotion with them, they prayed, and often times the girls would lead the prayer time. Girls 4-6 years old!!!!!! She has learned MUCH more than dance technique this year! Last weekend was CODA's Dance Recital. Unfortunately, 3 hours before she was to perform the Friday night show, Abigail came down with a nasty stomach bug (the same one Aliza got 48 hours before, and Anna got 4 hours earlier that day). She was crushed to miss it, but clearly was looking out for her fellow dance friends. "I don't want to throw up on stage and get everybody else sick", she said to me an hour before she was to get ready. She rested all night and the next day, pulling herself together to dance for Saturday's show. All of the songs at the recital were praise and worship songs, and these dancers of all ages just took your breath away by the way they lifted their bodies in praise to The King! For the finale, the Prince of Egypt theme song, When You Believe, played as all the dancers held hands and spiraled the stage. "There can be miracles, when you believe"...dancers tiny and tall lifted their arms praising God....it was phenomenonal! I could hardly see Abigail through my tears of joy, but she was up there, with her graceful arms, reaching toward heaven.

For Outreach Week (this past Wed.) they went to a local nursing home and performed their dances for the residents. They adapted well to a much smaller "stage" and just did wonderfully! After the 4 classes were done, the dance students were encouraged to mingle. I was so touched by Abigail who walked RIGHT over to a gentleman, shared her scarf with him and the two of them just played together. She was so gentle with him as if she sensed he was frail. He was so cooperative and played and danced right along with her. My, how God uses our children!