Ever think of buying tickets to a concert you can’t attend?
Why would I, living in landlocked and frozen MN, buy 6 tickets to the Carolina Hope - Caedmon’s Call/Derek Webb concert this Friday? Maybe I hatched a wild plan to fly out to the coast for the weekend with 5 of my closest girl friends. Sounds fun, but it doesn’t fall within the reality of my world or most of theirs. Something about leaving our husbands in the weekend lurch with a combined 45 kids just slows the plans down a bit.
So why did I buy these tickets? I bought them because I found that even though I am always planning on supporting the Ethiopia ministry I have never actually done it. I am ashamed to say I have never made it a priority and so it has just not happened. When I heard about this concert my first thought was, “If we were there I would go and take a bunch of friends with me! It would be so fun, and I would be helping with the fund raising too.” And then the better part of myself said “Truth is, you can’t go – but maybe someone else can, and you can bless the ministry at the same time.”
So today I happily bought six tickets — one representing each of my adopted children — and in the process I have broken my own pattern of procrastination. I hope that someone out there in warm South Carolina is going to use these tickets, love the concert and praise the God who calls us to embrace and care for the orphans.
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