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He’s given her, and the place in the body of Christ that He has placed her, the time is now! We need to rally around our sister as she cannot do it alone!
    Proceed with Caution: Stormy Waters Ahead
    Like so much of my DWTS journey, learning to ride the peaks and valleys of the show mirrored my Christian walk. For many Christians, coming to Jesus is a spiritual high. It is exciting! The love and acceptance of Jesus is awesome and overwhelming. At first, it is so easy to want to share Jesus with everybody, but it doesn’t take long to hit a roadblock.
    I cringe when I hear someone preach that people should come and try Jesus because He will improve their life. They promise peace and joy and love, and I’ve seen new believers grab on to that with both hands, expecting God to be the genie that makes their life easy. While it’s true that peace, joy, and love are gifts that God loves to give His children, He never promises that our lives will be problem-free. When we don’t understand that truth, we can be alarmed and upset when life gets hard. I’ve heard new believers say, “I thought God was supposed to make my life better!” But that’s not why we come to Christ. We come to Him because we are great sinners and He is a great Savior.
    Remember that story of Peter walking on the water toward Jesus? The Bible does not say that Jesus calmed the storm before He invited Peter to step out of the boat. The storm was still raging. The waves were still crashing. That water was still churning! But Jesus was with His friends in the midst of the storm.
    As that first show ended, I couldn’t help but wonder if I was sailing toward stormy waters. I didn’t want to be a one-hit wonder. It was so exciting to get high scores and to feel the love of my friends and fans, but I immediately felt the pressure of setting the bar so high.
    The only way I could stay afloat was the same way Peter did. I kept my eyes on Jesus. I determined to walk as He had called me to do, pressing on with my eyes on Him.

Chapter 3

    But the L ord said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or his stature, because I have rejected him. Man does not see what the L ord sees, for man sees what is visible, but the L ord sees the heart.”
    —1 Samuel 16:7
    W ARNING: Standing with conviction takes courage!
    There was no time to catch my breath after the first show. When the sun came up the day after that triumphant first live performance, Mark and I headed back into the rehearsal studio for the next round of competition. It turned out to be a leg of my DWTS journey that proved that standing with conviction isn’t always easy or popular.
    In an interview for the show on that first day I met Mark, the producers asked me what dance I wanted to do most. I drew a total blank! To be honest, because of my inexperience as a dancer, at that point I simply didn’t know the difference between a fox-trot and a cha-cha. Natasha piped up and suggested that I pick a rumba or a samba. I’m not sure she knew what those dances looked like at that point either, but I said, “Sure! I really want to do the rumba.” Note to self: don’t let your teenage daughter pick your favorite dance! Especially if it’s one you’ll be dancing live on national television, in front of millions of people.
    It turns out that the rumba is one of the toughest ballroom dances to master. In that first day of practices, Mark described the rumba to me as “the dance of love.” It is designed to be a romantic dance, characterized by slow, sensual hip movements. Mark was worried because of the difficultly of the dance in the second week of competition. I was worried for different reasons. I knew that I wanted to represent Christ well and I wanted to honor my husband. I had already made the decision that I wouldn’t sell sex for the sake of getting further on the show. I had made up my mind, and stated publicly, that I wanted to be modest because of my roles as wife and mom and because I knew