A few months ago, a few of our kids as if we could go to a concert by a Christian Spanish Artist Alex Zurdo. I don't know his music real well. During covid we would do family exercises to his music. So we decided to make it happen. To have some of our older girls actually singing Christian music is a good thing. Now I know that Christian music can be an area of contention in some circles. Music is so important especially to young people. What they listen to is also important. For some of our kids, it is an area we have had to make some compromises. I grew up with only Christian music bands like DC talk and Petra were some of my favorites. But when you bring kids into your home, you can't change everything all at once. You can change all the outward stuff by setting rules but it doesn't change their heart. They will still be drawn to things they want to do. So music is an area, we have felt would change as each kid changed. We do often talk about what songs are talking about and how pernitrates your thoughts so naturally.
So yesterday afternoon, we got to the music venue, a bull ring on the coast of Tijuana. The ticket said three o'clock. We stood in one line to turn in our online tickets. I didn't notice but we had preferred tickets not general admission. We were in the long line of maybe 200 people in front of us. After waiting for two hours to finally made it to the entrance they said we needed to be in the different line, which was another 500 people in it. There was a guy who saw us and said let me see what I can do. So we stood for another 10 minutes. He came back and then brought us through the line. We got bracelets for our tickets. Then they told us to follow this usher guy. Ok, so we did that. We walked all the way around and then down the venue to the main floor. So we ended up on the main floor about 4 rows back on the right side. We sat down and then an usher lady came up and said we were in the wrong area but said we could stay. So we were in the VIP section. There were ushers all along the way checking our bracelets. No one ever stopped us. So the Lord knew where we would end up. The music started at about 5:30.
Alex Zurdo was the main artist, he didn't start until 8:30pm. Three of my girls knew all of his songs. Seeing your kids singing songs some of which are straight from scripture was amazing. As a parent you can't force them to like a certain music. They were all jumping around and screaming as many people do in concerts. This was the first concert that many of them had ever been to. It was a joy to be apart of this memory that these kids now have. It was a joy to hear them all talk excitedly while we were leaving to go home.
So yesterday afternoon, we got to the music venue, a bull ring on the coast of Tijuana. The ticket said three o'clock. We stood in one line to turn in our online tickets. I didn't notice but we had preferred tickets not general admission. We were in the long line of maybe 200 people in front of us. After waiting for two hours to finally made it to the entrance they said we needed to be in the different line, which was another 500 people in it. There was a guy who saw us and said let me see what I can do. So we stood for another 10 minutes. He came back and then brought us through the line. We got bracelets for our tickets. Then they told us to follow this usher guy. Ok, so we did that. We walked all the way around and then down the venue to the main floor. So we ended up on the main floor about 4 rows back on the right side. We sat down and then an usher lady came up and said we were in the wrong area but said we could stay. So we were in the VIP section. There were ushers all along the way checking our bracelets. No one ever stopped us. So the Lord knew where we would end up. The music started at about 5:30.
Alex Zurdo was the main artist, he didn't start until 8:30pm. Three of my girls knew all of his songs. Seeing your kids singing songs some of which are straight from scripture was amazing. As a parent you can't force them to like a certain music. They were all jumping around and screaming as many people do in concerts. This was the first concert that many of them had ever been to. It was a joy to be apart of this memory that these kids now have. It was a joy to hear them all talk excitedly while we were leaving to go home.
