I have the coolest 13 year old daughter. She loves to dance and works hard at it in her many classes each week. When her dance class took a very ungodly turn she knew what God wanted her to do. She tried to talk to the teacher but got no where so she wrote the teacher a letter explaining why she had to drop the class. It was really hard for this daughter to face this teacher, to write that letter and it's still hard to deal with the lash back that her decision has caused.
The saddest part of all is the phone calls I am getting from other Christian moms...some of them homeschoolers who I thought were braver, more God-fearing than they are.
One mom was depending on my dear daughter's stand to change the teacher and save her daughter. This mom said she hasn't heard from God telling her to talk to the teacher herself. Sometimes things are sooooo obvious that God should not have to speak to us. We know our children aren't supposed to jiggle their bodies in a sexual way on stage. This is a no brainer.
Another mom wanted to know if I was worried that unbelievers would assume that I think my daughter is too good to do the dance. I told this mom that I thought all the girls were too good to put themselves on display like this. I also think the teacher is too good to be choreographing junk like this. She said she wasn't going to stop her daughter from doing because she didn't want to stop her daughter from being able to reach out to the unbelievers in the class. UGH! I know we are supposed to reach out but it doesn't mean we should behave in a sinful way. That will never bring someone to truth.
I feel like these poor girls are being sold out to sin. They are being used in such a that will bring money to the studio owner and in my mind their natural modesty is being destroyed. As parents it's our job to protect the God-given purity and modest that our children have.
If my 13 year old could focus on what God would think of her and not what others would think of her, why can't these parents.
Come on Jesus....we need you now. | 
