So we leave Conwy behind and head for Liverpool…heading north and our journey away from Wales and on to bigger and different things. However, we did not get to see Trevor and the Morris Boys play. So after a great time in Liverpool (see future blogs) we head back towards Conwy…way out of the way…get a hotel…drive an hour or so back…sold out Bluegrass show…so we convince the ticket lady we’re friends of the band…we drove all the way here…please sell us two tickets so we can see our friends…stand in line (first ones in)…all for a half hour show. It’s what brothers do. But it was PRICELESS!
Too see the joy that these guys had playing together was so great. Trevor said later that despite all the “stuff” that had gone on between David, Glyn, and he, the music always held them together. I think that is really powerful. Whatever it is that goes on, surely we can find the thing that keeps us bound together.
Well after a couple of really good bands (especially Special Consensus…see them on iTunes) we headed down to the pub with the Boys. We also got to meet Trevor’s longtime friend Bob and his significant other Heather. They were down as well camping in a converted ambulance. He’s a devout Atheist who loves Gospel music (more on that in a future blog).
But when everyone left, the pub was closing, we spent a long time lingering with Trevor…it was like we just couldn’t bear to say goodbye.
How does that happen? You meet someone for just a few days and you build such closeness, a connection really. It’s the kind of thing that makes you wonder if God didn’t orchestrate the entire vacation just so he could introduce us to Trevor (I hope He’s also going to help pay for it J). It makes you wonder. And if it were true, did he do it for Trevor…or did he do it for me. As a pastor and an evangelical Christ follower, it is easy for me to think that God orchestrated the whole thing because Trevor needed some spiritual direction in his life. He needed to be somehow reconnected to God (in a more traditional form).
But the more I process this whole deal, I’m convinced that God introduced me to Trevor for my benefit, for me to be reminded of God’s magnificent GRACE. That the God I worship and love and am committed to, would devise a scheme to connect two people together from different countries and experiences, and allow them to have a bond, a connection, a friendship, a chance encounter with the Magnificent God. Music is a great bonding agent for brothers and friends, but when God is that bonding agent…well then you become Brothers.
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