2 Years, 2 Months

2 Years, 2 Months

By March 19, 2019September 3rd, 2019Adventure

Here’s a video one of my classmates made of a tour of behind the scenes Colour Conference 2019!

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Losing Fear

This semester I’m taking a songwriting course at Hillsong College and it has been amazing so far!  I drink up the lecture content and am elated about the thought of writing and producing a 4-song EP as my semester project (elated as well as daunted, let me assure you, haha!).  During our last lecture they split us into groups and said “With your group, write a verse and a chorus.  You’ve got an hour.  Annnnd GO!” Honestly, the idea of co-writing with others always makes me nervous.  What if they don’t like my ideas?  What if it’s valid that they don’t like my ideas because they’re dumb but I still get offended?  Haha, just being honest over here.  Well, before I knew it four of us were swept into a practice room to get the task done.  I knew one girl, but the two gentleman were strangers to me.  In my mind, I decided in that moment to just jump in.  I asked questions, we got to know each other, and after chatting we easily slipped into tickling the ivories, building piano chords and as I had opportunity to play, the rest of the group sang and threw out lyric ideas.  We ended up coming out after an hour with a solid chorus and verse (which we also played in front of the entire class afterwards, ha!) that I think we were all actually fairly proud of!  I’m really excited about what this Songwriting course is building and breaking in me.  It’s helping me to lose fear, and take hold of opportunities to build my skill and experience new things!

Colour Conference

This year around (my second experience serving at Colour Conference as part of my college experience) I had the opportunity to not only be available to serve my specialist, Autumn, in various video tasks, but I also got to be in TV land as the “IMAG Producer Assist!”  I mainly had the task of communicating with various team members on the IMAG team (those who were operating cameras or screen images inside the auditorium) which required wearing a headset most of the time and looking out over the auditorium.  I’m pretty sure I had the best seat in the house, and got to work with some of the coolest people around!

Be at Peace

The morning before day 1 of Colour Conference 2 I prayed and asked God if there was any kind of word or expectation for me personally that he wanted me to be on the look out for.  All I heard him say was “be at peace.”  Cool.  I felt it was fairly simple, but I also didn’t fully understand what that meant until later.
As the auditorium doors opened on opening night and women came to fill the seats, I realized I wasn’t excited.  Conferences are so interesting.  They are full of energy and life and revelation, but sometimes I still become lethargic or familiar with it.  I prayed and asked God to help me see things his way, to understand that what was about to happen – thousands of people coming together for the purpose of glorifying God – and that it was “no small thing.”  But as I stood there on the edge of the auditorium, looking out over the stage, the screen and the seats, I felt like God was pleased with me simply being calmly at my post.  “Be at peace,” suddenly became a reality for me.  I didn’t need to be all hyped up – although those moments can feel fun, good and appropriate – I just needed to be.  I also felt that being at peace was significant, since many times in the positions we operate in in TV land can become stressful or chaotic rather quickly.  God reminded me that although familiarity is not good, being calm in an exciting environment is actually okay, and maybe even what he wants me to do for that moment in time.

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