When my aunt, Karen Frantz, announced that she was retiring and closing her business, I was immediately posed with the question, what am I going to do?

As with most things, when I was faced with this question, I prayed for direction from God. It is my first and greatest desire to seek God and to do what is pleasing to Him. To love Him before all else. And so, I asked what He would have me do.

I had been teaching at Karen’s Dance Academy since the age of 15, it has been my primary job for the last 10 years, and a second home to me. I was struck with the concern of what the 120 students at the dance studio would do if the studio closed.

Yet I wish not to make my life decisions based out of my own reasoning and perceived interests. I wish to submit everything into God’s hands and to go and do as He is directing. And so, I prayed much until I reached a point of clarity before God about what I should do.

It was in praying many years ago that I thought of the name WiLoKi, and it has forever in my mind been linked with dance. The name is made up of the first two letters of three other words. Wisdom. Love. Kingdom. These three words describe the most important things in the world to me.

The wisdom that is from God, by which we may know humility, discernment, discretion, prudence and justice in knowledge and understanding.

The love of God, which is the most beautiful and amazing thing in the world. To truly know the love that is from God is to know the fullness of life and to find everlasting joy.

The kingdom of God, which is to be sought first, which is the light in the darkness, extending the hope to the hopeless, love the broken, sight to the blind, comfort to the hurting.

I wish in my life to share these things with all people. To point to them, to witness of them, to see others come to know the fullness thereof in God. Truly, my life is God’s, in Jesus, and I love most to do the things He gives me to do.

I tell you this. God is real, and He has extended His love to you. Turn to Him, seek Him, call upon His name while He may be found. I pray that you are blessed with every good thing, and above all that you come to know Him who is the source of love, and joy, and hope, and peace.

If you would like to have a conversation about these things, I invite you to reach out,

David Alexander Jameson