{"id":923,"date":"2006-04-23T05:24:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-23T05:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2006\/04\/just-dance.html"},"modified":"2006-04-23T05:24:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-23T05:24:00","slug":"just-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2006\/04\/just-dance.html","title":{"rendered":"Just Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Willow last night Mike Breaux presented the talk. He called it &#8220;From Walker to Walker&#8221; and traced the life of humans &#8212; who begin in walkers and end up (often enough) in walkers. It was a spirited and sensitive romp through the life cycle. Then he drew out three points:<!--more|inline--><br \/>\nFirst, that life is short and can be full of challenges.<br \/>\nSecond, that God is faithful.<br \/>\nThird, that we need to choose to dance (choose joy).<br \/>\nBreaux is pretty creative, but tonight he finished off with the band singing LeAnn Womack&#8217;s (?) &#8220;Just Dance,&#8221; and had a few couples on the stage doing a little dancing &#8212; then Breaux danced with his granddaughter and Gene Appel danced with his daughter. And we went away happy, though since I can&#8217;t dance (and I&#8217;ve written about this) I wasn&#8217;t thinking of finding a place to dance. But I will say this: I subscribe 100% to what he had to say &#8212; life is short, God is faithful, and we can (by and large) choose joy.<br \/>\nWhich we did do last night with Laura and Mark at a local restaurant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Willow last night Mike Breaux presented the talk. 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