The new dance year has begun. As I first stepped into En Pointe's (EP) studio yesterday afternoon, I was inundated with small tasks, queries, and greetings. It was pleasantly crowded, and I was a bit overwhelmed. Nevertheless, I was happy to be back.

Juliana, on the other hand, was ecstatic to be returning to dance, especially given her first class of the year was Beginning Pointe. She's been looking forward to pointe for a very long time. Juliana's schedule this year is quite full. She has 11.5 hours of dance classes each week, including jazz, modern, theatrical, choreography, worship, and lots of ballet and pointe.

The Lord was hard at work for EP even in the off season. The studio's printer/copier finally died. Of course, there was no money to replace it, but a replacement was needed right away. Unknown to us, the director had just thrown it away. Unknown to the director, we had just learned of a nearly new printer/copier that was available for free. We picked it up, performed a bit of surgery on it to make it work, and EP had its replacement. When we told the director of this great find, she told us how she had just thrown the old one away and had no idea how to replace it. Such beautiful orchestrations occur regularly at EP and PIM, the Lord being the Provider He is.