Rockin' out to Springfield

So a few days ago my friend Andrew Fox asked me to play bass for this band that is beginning to record in Springfield. This seemed like a direct answer from God because I was faced with the choice of leaving Evangel and what I knew to play in a band that was recording in Tennessee and already in contact with record labels.

Michigan is stagnant, Detroit Mayor Kwami Kilpatrick just sold the tunnel to Canada to Canada. Businesses are closing weekly, unemployment is going up, and the ministry I have been "working" for is facing closing. I have been working one day a week while somewhat trying to save money for this money hungry institution called higher learning. Springfield will provide the opportunity for a steady job that will hardly quench the thirsts of Evangel.

I say all that to say that I am going back to Springfield earlier than expected. Classes start on the 27th, I will be there on the 4th. My Michigan friends might ask, "why John? You are being a filthy scalawag!" I guess this would be my attempt at an answer.

Springfield is by no means amazing. If I were to reside there the rest of my days it would have to be God's will because it is not what I would choose for myself. But there are possibilities there that Michigan can't offer me right now. I'm going to be in a recording band with the collective dreams of going big while still attending Evangel full time: and that is actually a good enough reason for me. I will also be scoping out employment before the majority of the starved college population returns.

I believe that if we want to be successful we have to recognize possibilities when they come our way and decide whether they would be promising to our future. I do not want to look back at life and say I had the chance to do something that would have meant a lot, and I chose to stay where it is comfortable.

No, I do not expect to be a famous rock star, I just plan on trying to take the abilities and passions God has given me to the fullest so I don't have to say, I didn't even try.