a pondering.

another lifelight 2010 story for you....
i was talking to matt (lead singer of the wedding) after their show and we got discussing pranks. apparently those boys in the wedding like to cause a little mischief every now and again (think borrowing golf carts without permission or pelting the audience with water balloons) at different summer festivals. however, they decided not to do anything at lifelight and this is the reason why: lifelight is good to them. apparently a lot of the other summer festivals aren't so nice to them as a band and lifelight has always been stellar to them.
now i'm not saying that it's right for them to "borrow" golf carts but it's also not right of the festivals to treat the artists poorly. i mean, without the artists there would be no festival, without festivals a lot of artists would have a lot tougher go of it. they go hand-in-hand. i'm sure there is a lot of stress on festival promoters/directors/booking agents/etc. but i find it incredibly sad when they don't treat the bands very Christ-like. when they forget the big picture of the festival, the ministry and music of it all, and get caught up in unnecessary details. likewise, it's sad when bands don't feel like they need to respect the festival because they feel like they've been slighted.
i applaud the boys in the wedding for not causing any mischief at lifelight because they didn't want to hurt or anger the people who had been so good to them. i applaud lifelight for being so great to their artists. i think we can all learn a little lesson from the wedding, lifelight, that fabulous movie, high school musical, "we're all in this together."
xo