The audience quieted down.  The lights came up.  The music started.  My heartbeat stopped.  These were the moments I lived for, but how I so desperately wanted to make this one go away.  Enter stage right…and commence the hardest and yet most healing dance of my life.

Oh the happiness and heartache of being home, of being with

FAMILY.

This week’s performance really got me reflecting on all the times my they have annoyed, tormented, pestered, plagued, provoked, worried, badgered, harried, harassed, heckled, peeved, persecuted, irked, irritated, bullyragged, vexed, disquieted, grated, bothered, bedeviled, teased, taunted, tantalized, nettled, upset, disgruntled, and aggravated me.  Nonetheless after all is said, done, and danced, I would have to say that it’s all been worth it for the blessed reality that I don’t have to go through this alone.