Lessons from "Mother India"

This has been an interesting week. However, let me start at the beginning.

It all began when I got an invitation on facebook to attend a Light of the World Ballet performance in OH and PA. Well, two of them actually (lol). I clicked "attend" and then asked Breanne, my fellow company member, what this all meant. She just said, well, LWB is going to OH and PA, but I don't know if trainees are going or not. Oh, ok.

Fast forward a week or so. I learn that the company is in fact touring to OH/PA, and they are only going to take two trainees with them. Guess what? I am not one of the ones invited to know. Shock! Disappointment! Confusion! At first I was a little upset. I hate feeling inferior. I hate feeling rejected. And then came the feeling sorry for self.....that I am always the one rejected, that I never get to do what I want to do... and they are doing the ballet called Mother India, which I really really want to do....
You get the picture.
So the company/2 trainees starts rehearsing this ballet at lunchtime. I got to see this beautiful ballet for the first time. Man. It is beautiful.
Mother India tells the story of the Dalit people of India, the lowest rung of the caste system there. In the ballet, there's this song called Mother India (hence the name), which talks about terrible poverty but the amazing hope that comes in the morning.... and I just got this sense that my feelings are so small. I remembered that the dancing itself isn't the point. The message of hope is the point. At that moment I started praying for the girls who will be heading out on tour in November...I think the Lord wants to do a mighty work through them. I will continue to lift them up in prayer: this is my part for this next tour. I won't be dancing. I won't even be physically with them. But I will be upholding them in prayer, interceding that the Lord would use them to draw many to Himself.....

And also, just because it is awesome, here is the song Mother India, put together with video that someone took from Calcutta, india.