Ok, so I'm in downtown Olympia looking for a coffeeshop with wireless so I can chill with my new laptop. I see a sign: "Espresso/Internet Cafe." It's called Veritas.
Looking back, this should have been a warning sign, but I interpreted the name, as I do with most of Olympia, as kind of pretentiously faux trendy and semi-hipster. Like the restaurant "Le Voyeur" down the street. After all I associate the idea of veritas more with Harvard than I do with Truth and the word of God. Anyway, I get a chai, take out my new laptop, and after an hour or so of web surfing and listening to the Nirvana CD I bought this afternoon, this band starts setting up and I see on the door that there's live music every Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday at 7pm.
Since I have nothing to do tonight and since the band sounds decent, I stick around. The band is done sound check and music comes on. There's something a little different about this music.
"I'm asking for forgiveness, I see you loving kindness. Lord, my God, creator of my heart, make me clean again."
Ohmygod this Christian music. Is the band going to play Christian music? Is this a Christian coffeehouse?
Thanks to Google (and my new laptop, have I mentioned it?) I find the Answer.
And now that I look around, it all comes together. The t-shirt for sale that says "LET THE TRUTH BE KNOWN." The angel statue next to the menu boards. The bumper sticker on the drumset with the name of the band-- SoulFill. The lifesize crucifix above the espresso machine.
They're starting their set now. They just called themselves a "praise band." They said that they're going back to their roots and if we know the songs we should sing along.
Gordon College has followed me to the west coast.
(I lied about the lifesize crucifix above the espresso machine. It was a cappuccino maker.)
2 comments:
what i want to know is will you be going back for the 'Christian Single Mingle' on Wednesdays? What kind of laptop?
Yeah, somehow I don't think I'll find any of my "type" of singles there :-P
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