JOY – a feeling of great pleasure and happiness.
Each year our talented Liberty Dance Center teachers and assistant teachers dance in our recital. We hadn’t gotten to do that since 2019, so when picking the song for this year “JOY” by Andy Grammer was an easy choice.
My favorite line in that song is “I found joy in my life”. It resonated with me as I truly believe, and hope to demonstrate to our students, that it is a choice to FIND joy in whatever life throws at you.
Fast forward to this week…I spent a week in LaCrosse, WI with my More Than Just Great Dancing peers and mentors at our annual member rally. The theme of the week was, you guessed it…JOY.
We heard many presentations about choosing joy and finding good in the hard stuff. We got to witness that firsthand from our mentor Misty Lown, the founder of More Than Just Great Dancing. She unexpectedly lost her father the day before the conference and so the theme of finding and choosing JOY took on an extra special meaning to us all.
Choose To Find Joy
To see how everyone stepped up to make sure Misty could be with her family and choose to find joy during this hard time was so special. To be in a room full of your people, of like minded people, really does a body, heart and soul good.
We hope to provide that at Liberty Dance Center for our students. It is our goal to provide a safe, positive, welcoming environment for all that enter our doors.
We also try to teach (and demonstrate) that life will throw you curveballs. And yes, there will be hard, sad, difficult times, BUT you can still choose to find joy during those hard times. It is a practice, just like the jetes and jumps we practice each and every dance class we take.
How will you choose to find joy in your life today?
