"Brick by brick, heart by heart."

Well, that's it! The Academy Theatre's Godspell has closed! I'm sure the rest of the cast will agree with me when I say that it wasn't easy to get to that finished product, but it sure was worth it!

I feel a little more emptiness inside than I usually feel after a show. Usually, I'm just like "Gah, I miss the show and I miss the cast!" However, this time, it's a little different. I'm still experiencing that old feeling, but on a deeper, more intimate level. I'm truly going to miss this cast! If you think that we spent the past two months working on a show, you're mistaken. We spent these past two months building "a city of man."

Being in Jesus in Godspell was, as many of you know, was my dream role. When I found out that I got the part, I quite literally danced for joy! But as tech week snuck up on us, God did something magnificent. He answered my prayer, "As I portray You onstage, let me be more like You offstage as well." It was not, however, in a way I expected. He showed me the greatest commandments: "Thou shalt love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Thou shalt love your neighbor as yourself. All the law and all that prophets have written is based on these first two." I was expecting a huge revelation and a deep hidden truth that was mind-blowing. He instead showed me a simple, easy, commonplace truth (or so immediately thought). By doing such a simple act as loving my neighbor, I'm becoming more and more like Jesus and that is not commonplace. Often times, we complicate Christianity, and while I don't feel that it should be simplified either, we forget the first and simple truths that God calls us to live our lives by. The Bible says that we love because he first loved us. If He can love us, knowing that we are sinners, we can surely love our fellow man. With these simple words from the Messiah, we can accomplish great things for the kingdom of Heaven. For if we allow ourselves to become extensions of Christ's everlasting outstretched arms to touch one heart, we've helped build a beautiful city for the sake of the Father.

That being said, I'm going to go out and change the world. How? I'll tell you; "Brick by brick, heart by heart."

The incredible cast of Godspell :)