Short career

Rayanna Greg is our Bible music and dance leader. She is every bit of nineteen, and the kids love her.  She hopes to become a pediatrician.  This will be a second career.  She was a ballet dancer but had to quit when she injured her hip. She teaches in a ballet school part-time, but no longer dances. She enters Carson-Newman this fall.

She spoke of this when we attended a performance of Swan Lake at the National Ballet yesterday evening. She doesn't sound bitter-- faith is an asset in such situations.

The brevity of a ballerina's career is astounding, especially since their training is grueling. Ordinary people's careers go much longer. I, for example, did seventeen years a social worker, thirteen years as a public school teacher, and have worked at a university another eleven years.  But I cannot move about like a swan.