Refocus

The other day I was on Cody's blog, and I saw the meanest post I've ever read about fame. It was mind-blowing stuff. Guess it made me look at our band, and more specifically, myself a little bit deeper and try and see our actual motives for stuff. If I'm being honest, the REAL reason I want to go on the debut stage at Parachute is probably pride. All in a good, "Christian" way of course, after all our songs aren't self-directed by any stretch, but still, underneath it all is that consuming desire to be on stage, strutting your stuff, showing to all the world that this is how you do your thing, play your music.
And that's the complete wrong view of looking at it.
I should want to play at Parachute not to feed my own pride, but to reach out. To bring to message, to be the message. Just cos Parachute's a Christian festival doesn't mean everyone who goes there is Christians. And Parachutes goal is to reach out to those people through decent Christian music. We should be playing for them, not for ourselves.
Spring is a good time of year. It's the time when it stops being rainy and you actually get a few days of sunshine. It's the time when the air is heady with blossom and the fields are green with white splotches of new-born lambs in. But more important than that, it's a time when you take off your heavy winter clothing, and re-evaluate who you are.
It's time to re-focus on who we are as a band. It's not about playing on bigger and bigger stages. It's about pouring our heart and soul into our music, and into connecting it to our audience, whether they consist of 12 people (our smallest crowd) or 100+ (our biggest.) To sing our songs for God.
That's when we'll know it's real, when we know that this is who we want to be.
From now on, this is for you guys, and for God.

Jordan