Why Creation (and God) Rocks the Hizouse
first of all let me say since the last time i posted on here i’m now a high school graduate and also 18 years old which is totally awesome.
But that’s not what i’m trying to talk about today. i want to talk about the rain and how awesome it is.
The first year i went to creation which was two years and one week ago, it was the first day of the festival, my birthday, and Skillet was schedualed to open the evening, and then Switchfoot, which are both really awesome. I had never been to creation before, but my freinsd said they wanted to go up right in front of the stage, where the mosh pit is where everybody gets hardcore crazy. the thing is, its so packed up there that to get even close to the front of the stage we had to leave our camp site at noon, for the concerts that start at 6 in the evening. so we missed dinner, but ya know, switchfoot is worth it.
Like i said it was my first year and i had never seen skillet before, and the truth is, i didnt really believe they could be quite christian. i mean, just look them up on youtube. but they are, for real. anyways, right after skillet but before switchfood, which was around 8, there is a half-hour break for them to set up. during that break, it started raining and pouring hardcore. the concerts go on in the rain, but the stage is made of metal so when it lightnings they tell everyone to go back to their campsite. but come one, the security guards were teenage girls who were like, “we signed up this morning!” so we werent gonna listen to them when they told us to go back. it was awesome beacuse everyone else except for my group and maybe ten other people went back to their sites, and when they did we moved up front, so we were literally on the fence, right in front of the stage. even when the real hired croud control people came and told us to leave, we just ignored them.
finally pastor harry came on, hes the guy in charge of the whol ordeal, and he said switchfoot would be coming on soon (this was two hours later) and then he said let’s pray, like he does everytime he gets on stage, and the first thing he said was, “dear god, thank you for blessing us with the awesome rain” and everyone applauded.
this year it rained again (i was wearing my rain jacket- i have a red jacket and everytime i wear it it rains, no joke) during Lincoln Brewster. it was awesome again. at first we were all like, “balls! it’s raining!” and we put on our ponchos and our jackets and crawled under our tarps, but then Brewster came on and he was all like “Dear God, Bring it on!!” and so we all danced around and partied in the rain, and then we made slip ‘n slides on the tarps and it was really fun.
That’s whats most awesome about creation, everything is a blessing. ya know, cuz two years ago if it didn’t rain so hard then i wouldnt have gotten so close to the stage for when switchfoot came on and it was probably the best birthhday i ever had. i think you can pretty much look at anything like that, like anytime anything bad happens you can just be like, “dear God, Thank you for giving me this flat tire,” or, “Thank you for giving me a brain that forgets my wallet at home” or something like that, not in a sarcastic way but like in a real gratefulness way, and even though it doesnt really make sense, it makes it all seem kind of funny.
Tags: creation, god, rain, switchfoot
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