SWC Music fest
So as any of my friends know, my sister and I are concert freaks. We love our music and bands. This was my 5th year to attend a music fest. 4th one with my sister, and our 2nd time at the DelMar SWC fest. This was the first year it was just us 2 in our ‘group’ that made the roadtrip. Our dear friend Janae couldnt make it, as her daughter was graduating high school, and my daughter couldnt make it, as she couldnt get off work. She did paint up our windows for us: TFK rocks the partay! and Kutless Rocks and Honk for SWC.
For anyone who loves Christian music, I have a full blog on our time there, but wont post it all here. If you’d like to read it, let me know and i’ll post the link.
Here, I will just share that we saw probably 20 bands, enjoyed the shows, the bands, the testimonies, guest speakers and got tons of walking on these legs!
So this Del Mar fest, is the best camping situation we’ve had for our festival experiences. You came right at the horse stalls, which are covered, and there are REAL bathrooms and showers!! So we set up camp, which was super easy this year w/ only 2 of us.
Here, I want to share with you all about my time during MercyMe show. My friend Vicky and I wanted to go get another band’s signatures, and I was supposed to get a tshirt and poster signed for my friend Courtney, so we watched a few songs of Mercyme, then headed to signing, but Falling Up already gone!!!!! 
I was bummed I didnt come thru for my friend Courtney. Well, Vicky and I raced back over to the seats, and my sister had left! She had come to find us. lol. Unfortunately she missed the best part. I sat down and I got into the worship mood. This was the second time I saw MercyMe, and I tell you that the spirit of the Lord is so powerful when they perform. I will try to explain the feeling, but so hard to express what happened in side me that night. They play ‘Word of God speak’ and I stand and am worshipping and singing along, arms raised to my Savior. They go right into ‘Here I am to worship’ and I tell you it was definitely going on in the stadium that night. I just felt that I wanted to give my all to Jesus. They then went right into ‘I can only imagine’. By this time I am filled with the Lord’s spirit. Tears are pouring down my cheeks and I’m sobbing, and I have my face lifted to the Lord, and I’m trying to sing, but i’m too choked up and in awe of our Lord. As the words were sang by Bart, I was really thinking how powerful a day that will be when we face Christ face to face. What will I do? Well, that night, I caught a glimpse of my reaction to being in His holy presence. Maybe not face to face, but I was just blown away by His majesty and power that night.
I struggle each day with things in my life, and many times I feel so unworthy to be called His child, but that night, I just felt His magnificance and His glory and how mighty and omnipotent He is. He’s so unfathomable in the depths of who He really is, and how our finite brains can not encompass it all. Yet HE LOVES ME! It’s quite incredible. The Creator of all things, loves each one of us and knows us by name!! Thank you Lord, for caring for me, even when I’m so unworthy.
After those 3 songs, i just sat and sobbed more. Vicky’s mom was hugging me and comforting me. The rest of the night, i really didnt want to talk. I just wanted to bask in the glory of our God. It was the perfect end to the event. *Before the event I had prayed to Him, that I wanted my time there to be focused on Him…not just the bands and the music enjoyment and entertainment, but giving Him the glory. That time that night, was just what I needed, and what I needed to give back to Him. Make sense?
OH! funny thing on the road trip home: We are tired. I just wake up from nap and Cheryl’s cranky at this semitruck that is coming up on her right and she says ‘what does that guy think he’s doing? He can’t get anywhere! Well, he pulls almost up to us, and honks!! I look and he’s got thumbs up and like saying YEA!!!! He was ‘honking’ cuz we had that painted on our window! ha!. We laughed hard over that one.
If any of you have an opportunity to go to a music fest in your area, I highly recommend it. There’s always a large variety of bands and musical taste and great speakers.
If any of you have been to fests or concerts that have touched you in special ways, I’d love to hear about your experiences.
on June 15th, 2006 at 2:38 pm
WOW! What a Awesome Testimony Sister Donna of the Power of The Holy Spirit and His presense that was with you!! I wept as I read this sis and Thanked Him for even allowing me to read about His presense He can reveal in a believers life! Donna Thank You so much for this awesome Testimony it Blessed me indeed! and I love to attend a Music fest .. But have not had the chance in this area yet. Im happy you were Blessed!
Love in Christ .. yur Bro ……. Chuck
on June 15th, 2006 at 10:50 pm
Thanks Bro. I really appreciate your comment, and that you were blessed by reading about my experience. That you were touched, made me cry! lol. God is so incredible. Truly, how can we even begin to imagine His Majesty??
on October 4th, 2006 at 6:05 pm
ok so i finally read it :p . i probably should have read this months ago cos i was the one who was overly curious as to what happened at that fest but i am always anxious to get into chat that i put it off in the hopes that i will read it later :p
i like what u posted in there cos i used to struggle with that, the whole thing about being at a show to actually experience God at a venue like that. i used to be always afraid of ‘idolizing’ the band or something like that. i always used to worry that when i go to concerts then i am losing the essence of why i actually listen to this kind of music in the first place. but after i went to my first kutless concert back in June (and donna you know how much i love their music!) God finally allowed me to realise and to have peace about my going to concerts and stuff like that. at that show, Jon-Micah didnt really look like he wanted to be there (he was probably tired or sick or something) and i expected to be disappointed at that but i wasnt. it was at that concert that i realised that i am in it more for the music and wouldnt really be upset if the lead singer did not shake hands with me (as i was expecting in the kutless situation). and i realised this more after talking to the falling up guys at a diff show months later, they really ARE just regular guys, as cliche as that sounds. drooling over them would be like, like, drooling over your pastor or something. at least thats what it felt like at the time.
mmmmm…..i promise, i DID NOT set out to write all that stuff when i finished reading your post. but all the same, i loved loved loved your pictures! i am a really bad photographer and i always look weird in pictures otherwise i would post mine too.
btw, i am starting to like RED a little bit now :p