3 Guys & a Tambourine.

A few weeks ago one of my favorite bands came to Sydney: Hanson.
Hanson came to Sydney.
That's right--the "MMMBop" boys.

Not only was I luckily enough to see them, but I was able to go with the coolest kids! We had the best time even before the concert started.  But then the concert started.
AND IT WAS NEXT LEVEL!!!!

The whole thing was like being in this dream.  Such a beautiful dream.
Hanson has always been good and not the synthesized, over produced kind of sound that's kept a lot of "artists" in the studio.  Hanson is the kind of good that's natural, unforced, and real.  A few songs in they put down their instruments and did an a cappella tribute (with 3 key changes!) to the Bee Gees.
Flawless.
That's the moment I was convinced it was actually a dream.





Two days after the concert and I was still on cloud 9.  As I was journalling I realized part of what made it so brilliant: I had been waiting for 14 years for this concert!  Ever since "If Only" came out in 2001 I wanted to see them.  Fourteen years of anticipation does a lot for the whole concert experience.

Long story semi-short: if you get the chance to see Hanson, do it.



My 3rd round of Pentatonix is coming up this Wednesday--that'll be fun!

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God is with me.
God is with you.
He's weeping when we weep. Laughs when we laugh.  He experiences things with us, because He's relational and loves us.

What really takes His love to the next level and why He's so trustworthy (one a thousands of reasons) is because while He's with us, weeping, rejoicing, laughing, mourning, etc., He actually sees the big picture.  God knows the reason we're going through what we're going through and cares for us enough to not rob us of the opportunity of character development.

Romans 5:3-4 (ESV)

"Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that 

suffering produces endurance, 

and endurance produces character, 

and character produces hope..."

I'll write something about that: suffering produces.

But for now I'm stuck on the idea of faith as another layer of skin as opposed to an article of clothing we put on when we need it.  Excited to develop that more...