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Saturday, June 25, 2005
From Mark Salomon, lead singer of the band Stavesacre, in his book "Simplicity":
"As far was what I hope to accomplish here...I'm not just trying to tell you my life story. I am hoping to show you that the lives of the people who make music and entertain you are just as complex as yours. There are stories for our lives, too--ones you may never see, and yet these people still feel at liberty to have all sorts of opinions about them. There are very real reasons why we do the things people might be judgmental of, reasons that are true, honest, and righteous. Not everything is a step away from faith or backsliding, often the opposite is true, but many of us do what we believe is right, at the risk of being accused of those things anyway.
I guess in the back of my hope is the dream that maybe we could be different fromt he world around us, that through actions as simple as how we treat each other, we could be witnesses as to who Jesus really is. We should at least be as good as the world around us, right? Shouldn't we, who claim to have what the world around us needs, trust each other with the same amount of common courtesy and love that they do? I would love to come off of a tour of nothing but clubs and bars and be able to say that I was glad to finally be around Christian again. As of right now...that is not the case.
If anything, maybe I could at least start a little dialogue between people, and maybe...just maybe, something will change.
I think we need it."
So, for today, how would you respond to Mark Salomon? What would you say if you were sitting across a coffee cup from him and he said these words out loud?
Brent 6:01 AM
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