I haven’t watched Strictly for several years but I found a bit of grit in my eye playing the result of this year’s contest on the BBC News app while getting dinner ready. Chris McCausland and Diane Buswell have been outstanding not making a disability matter. He’s just said the trophy is for Diane and “it’s for everyone out there that got told they couldn’t do something or thought they couldn’t do it, and it just shows that with opportunity and support, and just determination, just anything can happen.”
We all need things that make us see not all of humanity is bad. We need feel good times. And when we are excluded like sadly some disabilities still are today, we need to know with “opportunity and support and just determination, just anything can happen.”
In the Christmas story, the shepherds weren’t disabled but they were outsiders. No one wanted them to be the first at anything. But (and this is cheesy o reader) they won the divine glitterball - the prize of being first to see the Christ child parents and animals aside. No one expected them to be the people who got there before anyone else. They were determined to take the opportunity given to them not by a Strictly producer, but by an angel and an angelic host and they made haste to take it.
So tonight let’s enjoy tv good news and celebrate with Chris and Diane and in our faith let’s keep dancing! (Sorry! I still miss Brucie!!!)
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