Two Step

I attended the Dave Matthews Concert the other night in West Palm.

This yearly ritual was held in the underappreciated venue that is Sound Advice Amphitheatre. There's always something a little magical about making that drive out on Southern Boulevard - the eclectic surroundings of an airport, run-down houses and undeveloped property - an artery of a road that really is aptly named, much more closely related to old cracker West Palm than its upstart debutant sibling of guilded Palm Beach...turn back east and you can end up on that pristine and prestigious shore...keep heading west and you'll end up on the backward, haunting yet timeless banks of Lake Okeechobee and all its lore...but in between lies the amphitheatre and its there you'll be greeted by music carried on the wind, planes with their flickering lights roaring overhead, smoke billowing around you....

and thick crowds of people.

And it happens everytime I'm there for a big show that inevitably as the night thickens and the band carries on that I will look around, the music fading to the background for just a second, and I will think to myself, "Look at all of these people."

All different yet not without similiarities, all journeying through this life, all coming to the show for some intention of having a good time

All made in the image of God.

And it's times like that- under that endless sky and surrounded by those euphoric crowds - where I remember just how small I really am. That on the shores of humanity I am but a grain of sand.

And yet the amazing balance and tension of it all is that even in my insignificance and low stature in the height of history the Creator-Redeemer loves me. And He makes me significant and makes me have worth not of my own but because of his love for me.

That even though we are grains of sand on the shores of humanity, his waves of mercy and love wash over us.

"...my Love you came to me like wine comes to this mouth grown tired of water all the time. You quench my heart and you quench my mind..."
- "Two Step" DMB