YES!

I really love Tenth Avenue North a bunch more after having met them. I worked backstage for their concert. Them and their crew are so awesome. They had a John McCain poster cutout which was hilarious and scary sometimes. Anyways, awesome concert, awesome people. Tyler and I were sitting in the seats during the sound check and Mike (lead singer) was walking through to get a little closer to the sound guy, and 2 seconds later when he was walking back he apologized for having accidentally farted just as he walked by. What a great sincere guy. Famous or not, I held my breath for a few seconds. Anyways, they are such a Christ focused group (along with Addison Road and another band who I forgot the name of).

One thing that lead singer girl for Addison Road was talking about was how God really didn’t follow her plans. This got me thinking about how there are always those times when life is out of control and it just sends us back into God’s arms because there is nothing else we can do. I’m going to backtrack a sec, but just hang on. In church today at Hope Community the message was mostly on sin and other stuff and was overall really good. One thing that I have been recognizing to work on in my life is just daily dying to my own desires and putting God first. I get so pumped and focused at chapels and stuff, but back in my dorm room I just lose it all. So connecting this back to losing control, maybe God is just sending wakeup calls. So using the analogy of us being the driver of our life, Jesus/God/Holy Spirit is sitting there in the back seat. He is always there quietly giving us direction/advice. But day to day as we travel our normal routes we just kinda block him out and tell him, “Don’t worry, I know what to do.” After awhile we keeping choosing our own routes wherever we go and God is getting a little ticked. So he lifts his pinky a mountain rises up directly in the road. We are so confused and lost we instantly turn to the back seat and seek his advice. (okay, I am not saying that God causes all our problems, but he definitely doesn’t stop them, and for good reason) So maybe we need to listen up a bit more. God has some great detours planned for us, but we just like to turn up the radio, read the billboards and ignore Him. God has such a better future for us, but He also has day to day steps to get us where we need to be. Watching Family Guy isn’t going to enrich my life. Playing through all my video games isn’t going to make me grow closer to the people around me (possibly under rare circumstances). So David, when you have such little time in your life, start focusing on what is the right thing to do, not the okay thing. For although watching TV or movies are not really considered sins, I believe it can be as much a slap in the face of God as lying, cheating, etc.