That means figure skating, sequence outfits and cheesy music.
Who could say no to that?
There were skaters from all ages - little tykes who couldn't tie their own laces to professionals that made the sport look effortless.
At one point, a young lady came onto the ice to do a solo routine. She couldn't have been more than 16 years old and seemed to have quite a bit of confidence on her skates.
However, when she took her first jump - a double toe loop or triple tail spin or whatever they're called - she timed it inaccurately and fell. Ouch. The ice didn't look very soft.
She tried to recompose herself and keep going, but you could tell some of the wind was knocked from her sails.
Again she tried another jump. This time, she didn't fall completely, but the jump was by no means smooth. You could tell the poor girl was shaken.
By the end of the routine, a simple spin was hard for her and she had pretty much given up on trying anything, for fear of embarassing herself in the process.
Later in the show, a woman about 25 years old came onto the ice. This particular skater was invited to join the show because she was a professional. She had been on skates since she was two and even won National's the year before.
You could tell.
Her confidence was impenetrable. I'm not saying she didn't fall. She did, in fact. The difference between her and the young lady before her, however, was this:
She didn't let it shake her.
You can imagine, that in 20-some years on the ice, she is accustomed to falling. She knows she isn't perfect and that she won't perform everything exactly right all the time. When she fell, she got right back up and continued her routine with the same confidence she started out with.
Sometimes it's easy to give up, isn't it?
We fall, we fail, and we feel that there is no point. We've messed up, so why try?
Why? Because the music is still going.
When we're young, we fall and we feel like it is the end. In our walks with God we feel like we're unforgivable. We're failures.
It's not until we fall many times and are forgiven much that we truly understand that we can get back up and move on in confidence.
Have you fallen? Are you skating with confidence? Or with none at all? Or are you simply laying on the ice, waiting for the song to end and someone to drag you off?
Believe in God's unfailing love. Get up. He won't turn his back on you no matter how much you fall.
You have a routine to finish.
"And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God's love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today or our worries about tomorrow - not even the powers of hell can separate us from God's love. No power in the sky above or the earth below could separate us from the love of God that is revealed to us in Jesus Christ our Lord."
~ Romans 8:38-39
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