Touched

I have a secret confession to share...

I may be slightly addicted to SYTYCD.  For those of you who are not fans of hashtags and acronyms and the last eight years, this is So You Think You Can Dance.

However, I am pretty selective in my SYTYCD viewing habits.  I never watch auditions.  I hate how many commercials there are and how you have to watch the awkward dancers as well as the good ones.  If there is a good audition, they will show it again, so I am not worried.  I also would much rather watch it once I have recorded it on my parents' DVR or on hulu as opposed to on tv...again, too many commercials (do you think we can start a letter writing campaign to fox about the horrid ratio on their station of commercial to tv viewing time?)

But I digress.  What I was really here to tell you is that I have a secret love affair with SYTYCD.  In fact, sometimes I watch that instead of doing my homework...and yes, tonight was one of those nights.  sssssh, don't tell my teachers...

This is one of my favorite dances from season 8.  I always LOVED watching Melanie dance, and this dance of hers happened I THINK on the top twenty episode, though if i am wrong, then you can let me know.

I was blown away.  Literally blown away when I saw it the first time.  It still touches me every time I watch it.

There is something so magical about dance.  About letting your soul speak to the audience through your movement.  This is hard to do when you are at a live performance, and I feel like it is even harder to catch if you are watching it on TV.  So for me, when I watch this piece, I am blown away not only by the fact that it moves me deeply, but by the fact that it DOES move me deeply.

I firmly believe that we, as human beings, are here to be touched.  To see the hand of God in all aspects of our life.  And when I can feel my Heavenly Father reaching out to me through something I see on TV that isn't made by the church, it is another evidence that we are all brothers and sisters and that we all have the light of Christ within us.

And so, I bring you "Turn to Stone" danced by Melanie and Marko.  Be touched.