The real "Big Dance" & NIKA

Easter arrived on Sunday.  For me it is our real "Big Dance" as we are in the final days of the NCAA Basketball Championships.  There will be a winner.  There will be great celebrating for the winner and tears for the team that is defeated.  Barring another horrific injury as was suffered by Kevin Ware, the end of the contest should be emotionally and physically exhausting for all participants.  But there will still be one victor, one loser.

Easter brought its own victory for all believers, that being the victory over death. And in this contest that spanned over 3 decades, our team won!  We are ALL victors! We are all dancing towards heaven. I love dancing, and I hope to dance humbly towards the source of my very being. I hope my dance moves will be varied; slow dancing with one losing a loved one or enduring a terminal illness; a more lively dance keeping up with members of our "younger church" that shifts from joy, fear, anxiety, love, hate, and the entire spectrum of situations that some Gatorade along the way will be appreciated. I pray that my big dance will follow the moves of Jesus in his service moves towards others.  Holy Week gave us lessons better than any Arthur Murray course could give in the "dance". NIKA!  We are victors!