My faith keeps me alive, but I still be weeping
Its about 4 people as mighty and strong as the points on a compass.
Its about Ottawa illinois
Its about seeing kids in need and doing something about it.
Its about perseverance.
Its about believing in the ability of a human being to overcome circumstances that most people in this country would never understand.
Its about looking in a kids eye everyday and having that kid tell you he doesnt know if they want to live…and then you punch the clock and go home and supposedly leave your work behind.
Its about my time in ottawa illinois.
Its about 12 am and I’m humbled and laid low.
Its about 4 years that I’ve done this show and close to a million people have seen it and there have been hundreds and hundreds of shows…And theres something about Ottawa that will never leave me.
Its about a scruffy 7th grade boy who looks you in the eye and says “this show hit me…and changed the way I think.”
Its about a student who sees every one of their family members on drugs and feels like they are losing control.
Its about a beautiful town filled with friendly people who are tired of losing their kids.
Its about wanting to make someones choices for them and living in confusion and doubt and wondering if you are doing all you can.
Its about hard work.
Its about having the faith to do something about it.
Its about the hope that our actions and words can make a difference even though we feel like we fall so short.
Its about love.
Its about looking deeply with all the comapassion of the buddha.
Its about corinthinans 13.
Its about Trish.
Its about Jeff.
Its about Doug.
Its about John.
Its about Ottawa illinois.
Its about a man sitting outside after it all died down. How he noticed the sky was a perfect blue canvas for the Picasso strokes of vapor trails and migrant birds. Thousands of birds like he never saw before. This was beyond anything he had seen on discovery channel and the birds kept coming and going by. 10 seconds. 1 minute. 5 minutes of non stop birds. As this wonderment started to seem normal and all part of earths plan he noticed one bird apart from the rest probably about 1/4 mile away from the rest of the bird traffic flow. Was this also part of the earths plan? A bird that was lost and had not kept up? It wasn’t injured. It was either lost or maybe taken his eye off the flock for too long and was scrambling to get back or it was done with its vacation and was rejoining the rest that didn’t know how to really fly. Either way it caught back up again. He just had to have faith the bird was gonna fly and make it home. As he sat down on the picnic table and read the initials of the previous hotel guests he thought of home and his wife, his dog, and his chair. They waited for him. The time flew by and its about that time.
But it was all about Ottawa Illinois.
