I Am A Roadie

How have two weeks gone by soooo fast? On the surface everyday seems the same but every memory is so different that I feel like we’ve been here for months. We’ve screened The Rescue at about 15 colleges and high schools in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire thus far and I’m sitting at another college promoting for our screening this evening.

Let’s be real here, when I say a lot has happened these past two weeks I’m not lying and any other Roadies reading this will know what I’m talking about. I’ve been angrier, happier, more excited, more satisfied, and more anxious than ever before in my life thinking about these screenings, our team, where we’ll sleep tonight, even how much I’m eating. Sometimes things are just out of my control and I’ve come to that conclusion quite quickly.

Last week we finally got our missing link back, Josiah Lamerson, from Uganda and the mood couldn’t have been tenser. We were still figuring out how to be Roadies, public speakers, techies, and salesmen all at the same time as well as practically married to strangers. But I think honesty and prayer have their way of penetrating even the thickest tension to find what’s beautiful underneath. We’re all so different and bring unique things to the table and that’s something that can be embraced and praised. I’ve laughed so hard this week that I can see the beauty of every one of my teammates.

Our highlights for the first two weeks of tour include amazing screening at MCLA, Clark University, and Rivier College. Our contacts there are amazing people who put amazing amounts of work into making their screenings the best. Love them. We also had a great weekend with a former roadie in New Haven who took us all over with his roommates to get falafel, thai food, goodwill, the bookstore, and just have fun. It was the first time since San Diego I was able to just let go and have fun. It was wonderful.

Lastly, and probably the coolest thing that’s happened so far is our trip Friday to the Paul Mitchell School in Danbury, CT to hear the dean of all the PM schools, Winn Claybaugh, give a motivational speech on how to better love people. It was phenomenal! If you ever get the chance to hear him speak please take it because I haven’t heard someone so passionate about loving people since I read about Jesus. He wrote a book called Be Nice (Or Else) which you may also enjoy reading if you’re the type of person who enjoys being nice.

And that’s tour so far! We’ve been struggling to make our goals at screenings but hopefully we’ll be higher on the board by my next update. Bye for now!