Acceptance With Joy: January 2010

We were really blessed to get to go to an awesome Jonny Diaz/Chris and Conrad concert last night! Mom and I and Heidi and Tabby went and my Aunt Carie came with us! It was fantastic! I had an awesome time!

First, we went to my aunts house and she made dinner for us. Then we all headed over together. It was at Northside Church in Clovis. We got there really early and had to stand in line for about 45 minutes. We were blessed to get there early though because the line wrapped all the way around the church!

First we listened to Brian Weaver, who was a newer artist. He was kinda the warm up. He sang some really good songs. The one I really liked was called Running. It talked about how were constantly trying to make ourselves look good and we're running from who God made us. Brian told us how he only writes songs that talk about something he's experienced or been through. I really appreciate song writers like that because you know that they know exactly what they're talking about. He came up on stage during an intermission after he sang and showed us a video about Compassion International. Then the ushers came out and Brian told everyone that if they wanted to sponsor a child, then we should raise our hand and the ushers would give us a packet for a child. This is where he said that he didn't want to promote something if he wasn't going to do it, so he said he actually just started sponsoring a child a few days earlier. Our family felt like that was something the Lord would have us do, so we raised our hand. Our little girl is six years old and her birthday is the same as mine! I'm so glad that the Lord is allowing us to take part in this!

After the first intermission, Chris and Conrad came out. They were the loud and active part of the concert. You could really feel the Lord moving in and through them to the people there. Their great love for the Lord was evident in their lyrics and music. They've quickly become one of my favorite artist.

And last but definitely not least, Jonny Diaz. His Song More Beautiful you has really encouraged many girls, me included. He has written a lot of wonderful songs that really speak to your heart and talks about being who God made you, how God still loves us no matter how apathetic we've grown, about how when we ask God things, a lot of the time He gives us our least favorite answer. . . wait. But that we need to trust Him and be patient to wait on Him. He writes some deep songs.

It's really hard to find artists who, both write good lyrics and sing well. But we were able to get both last night at the concert!

After the concert, we stood in a long line to get autographs. Mom and Aunt Carie didn't want to stand in such a long line so they decided to go to Starbucks to get a coffee. On there way out of the church they walked up to the table and asked Jonny, Chris and Conrad if they wanted a Starbucks coffee. The guys were shocked! They loved it! They all ordered, Jonny got a Vanilla Bean Frappaccino, Chris got a White Mocha and Conrad wanted a Blue Monster so they ran to the store and got him one of those. Mom got us three girls a hot chocolate. Then when we got to the table Chris said "Oh, these are the people who got us a Starbucks!" and Conrad said, with a big grin on his face, "Not me. This is what I got!" and he pulled out his Blue Monster. They then proceed to sign all our cd's and we all chatted for a while :) I think that it's important to realize that, even though these artists are famous, a lot of people know about them, and it's really neat to meet them and talk to them, they're still normal people and I know they appreciated it that we treated them like such.