We Get Our Stuff Back!!
8 04 2008
Through all of this Kinetic billboard stuff and the church’s stuff being stolen it can be forgotten that nearly 90% of everything my band, Severely Yours/One Way, owns was stolen along with our church trailer. The equipment that was stolen was somewhere around $20,000 worth of stuff that we have accumulated and worked extremely hard for since I was sixteen years old.
I went through a variety of emotions the first few days following the robbery. At first I felt extremely responsible because I used the van and trailer for a winter conference that I took the students on, then I felt mad, then I felt bad for the guy/girls who took our stuff, and then I moved to a feeling of peace.
It’s odd to think of moving towards a place of peace in such chaos, but God took me there. I went to a place of realization that the stuff that was taken was not ours. God provided and blessed us with gear, merch, and everything we owned to do what He has called us to do. When you are stripped of everything on the surface what lies inside is exposed.
Being completely exposed is scary. Very scary.
While being exposed we were unsure if our insurance was going to cover our gear, and we didn’t find out until today that the insurance (thank God Lane owns a home) was going to cover the majority of our stuff. Let me just say that I AM SO PUMPED!! I am pumped because the uncertainty is beginning to come to an end, we get new gear (maybe even better stuff), and I am pumped because we aren’t finished!!
This painful, time-consuming process, I hope, is drawing to a close.
