From the start of the long drive up, everything seemed to go wrong. We had crazy directions that took us through Angeles Forest on impossibly windy roads, and got there between 1/2 hour and an hour later than we had planned. There were major tech problems with lighting, audio, video, and just about everything. At 6:30 (1/2 hour before scheduled start time) they had just gotten the entire program to play through without skipping or stopping for the first time the entire afternoon. We started behind time by at least 1/2 hour.
And then...there were the pantomimes themselves. At the beginning, every thing seemed to go ok, but by the time we got to the third pantomime, things started happening...timing was off by 30 seconds or more, people missed their cues, props were lost, etc.
As our leader later said, from a performance standpoint this was by far the worst performance we've ever had. From a performance standpoint, that is.
But God was definitely working last night through all the trials we encountered. Talking to people afterwards, it was easy to see how much God was able to use us to work in the hearts of others. It was a hard lesson to learn, but a good one...that God can use even our most messed up attempts to serve him, and moreover, that God is most exalted when we are most humbled.
Which is why Speechless was so absolutely amazing.
2 comments:
Are the list of performances online? Isn't God good?
Hmm...list of performances. Well, we have two lined up after the first of the year but we don't know exactly when yet. You can check out our website...www.speechlessoc.com and we should have the dates up there shortly.
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