Don’t Waste Your Life

John Piper says in his book “Don’t waste you life”
“You man not be sure that you want your life to make a difference. Maybe you don’t care very much whether you make a lasting difference for the sake of something great. You just want people to like you. If people would just like being around you, you’d be satisfied. Or if you could just have a good job with a good wife, or husband, and a couple of good kids and a nice car and long weekends and a few good friends, a fun retirement, and a quick and easy death, and no hell- if you could have all that (even without God)- you would be satisfied. That is a tragedy in the making. A wasted life.”




I got to a small group Bible study on Sunday nights for the Seniors in my youth group. We have been studying out of John Piper’s book “don’t waste you life” and it has been a really great study.

In the quote above we are given the American dream. That is what everyone pictures as the perfect life, even if they have no God. Tonight I realized the tragedy of that, I realized that was how I felt. That I just wanted to be accepted by the world and I didn’t really care about making a lasting difference for God. I realize now that every thing that I do should be bringing God glory somehow. The title of this blog is Dancing to Bring God Glory… but lately I have not been doing that. I have been dancing for me and to earn praise for myself. I’m sad that I wasted so much dance and life on someone as disappointing as myself. From this day forward I aim to bring God glory in everything I do. I am recommitting myself to Dancing for the Lord!

Abortion

Dear Friend,

I'm writing to let you know about a terrible piece of legislation called "The Freedom of Choice Act" (FOCA).

FOCA would establish the right to abortion as a fundamental right (like the right to free speech) and wipe away every restriction on abortion nationwide.

It will eradicate state and federal abortion laws that the majority of Americans support and prevent states from enacting similar protective measures in the future.

Please read the expert analysis by Americans United for Life (AUL) and sign the Fight FOCA petition at:
http://www.FightFOCA.com

Thank you!

A Poem

All right I’m trying my hand at this poem thing. Judi you inspired me to try writing and a guy (whose name shall not be mentioned) inspired these words.


He makes you angry
And you don’t know what to say
All he does it hurt you
In every single way

He flatters you with pretty words
And showers you with praise
Then he goes and leaves you
And talks to her all day

You can’t help but like him
Even though you know its wrong
Why is it so extremely hard
To let go and move on

Photo of the week!

Abortion

“Q: Do you personally believe that life begins at conception?
A: This is something that I have not come to a firm resolution on. I think it's very hard to know what that means, when life begins. Is it when a cell separates? Is it when the soul stirs? So I don't presume to know the answer to that question. What I know is that there is something extraordinarily powerful about potential life and that that has a moral weight to it that we take into consideration when we're having these debates.”
Obama

This video clearly shows the answer to this question. Do not try to tell me that what you just saw can not be considered a person or alive.

I am going to state the fact of the matter clearly in one point:
If you are not prepared to have a child, then do not have sex. You can not be fully prepared to have a child unless you are married because a child needs both parents (though I understand that God has a different plan for some people). Thus simple logic would be that you should not have sex until you are married.
Don’t be selfish and give in to you own desires, there could be another being depending on you.

Alina Cojocaru

On my other blog (www.reallifeofadancer.blogspot.com) I recently wrote about how Alina Cojocaru is my inspiration. I thought I would share a video of her that I found on youtube. She is portraying Giselle, a young women who fell in love with a prince but could not be with him because she was low class. She kills herself and becomes a ghost.

In this video the Prince sees her ghost and they dance a beautiful Pas De Deux. Even when portraying death, Alina is stunning and believable!

Dancer Profile: Rudolf Nureyev

Nureyev was born in Tatar, Russia on March 17th 1938. Nureyev loved to dance from a very young age, but was unable to enroll in a ballet school until 1955 because of World War II. Nureyev was sent to the Vaganova Choreographic Institute and the teachers soon noticed that he was the most gifted dancer they had seen for years, but they also noticed he had a difficult temperament.
Within two years Nureyev was one of the Soviet Union's best-known dancers, in a country which highly valued the ballet and made national heroes of its stars. It was a rare privilege for people to travel outside of the Soviet Union, but Nureyev was allowed to go to Vienna once to perform, but soon after he was restricted to leave because of his temper.
In 1961 Nureyev's situation changed. The Kirov's leading male dancer was injured, and at the last minute Nureyev was chosen to replace him on the Kirov's European tour. His performances electrified audiences and critics, but he broke the rules about mingling with foreigners, which alarmed the Kirov's management. The Union wanted to send him back to Russia again but on June 17th 1961, Nureyev defected.
Soon he was signed up by the Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas and was performing major roles. Margot Fonteyn soon became Nureyev’s dancing partner and they soon became the most famous dancing “couple” still known today. Fonteyn and Nureyev were great friends, on and off stage, even though Nureyev proved to have a horrid temper that would flair up when practices did not go well.
In 1964 he came to the Vienna State Opera, where he remained as a dancer and chief of choreography till 1988. Around 1964 he became involved in filming his ballets, many of which are available to watch today on VHS. During the 1970s, Nureyev appeared in several movies and toured the Untied States in a revival of the Broadway musical The King and I. His guest appearance on the then-struggling television series The Muppet Show is credited for boosting the series to worldwide success.
In 1983 he was appointed director of the Paris Opera Ballet, where as well as directing he continued to dance and to promote younger dancers. Despite advancing illness towards the end of his career, he worked tirelessly, staging new versions of old standbys and commissioning some of the most groundbreaking choreographic works of his time.
By the end of the 1970s he moved into his 40s and his strength and ability to do such amazing dancing declined. He unfortunately continued to tackle the big classical roles for far too long, and his rather undistinguished performances in the late 1980s disappointed many of his admirers. Towards the end of his life, he was wracked with the ravages of AIDS, but he still worked tirelessly on productions for the Paris Opera Ballet.
Nureyev died in Paris France in 1992 at the age of 54.