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What I Learned from Coldplay Last Night

July 3, 2012 By Stanton Lanier 4 Comments

Even though I have played over 500 times for concerts, events and groups of all sizes, I haven’t been to that many concerts in my life. Last night I got to go with a friend to Coldplay in Atlanta. Below is an image of confetti that was blown in huge volume from the stage to the ceiling at the beginning of the second song for the show. Then it floated back down over the crowd in millions of pieces. It was magnificent. Here is what I learned…

Confetti = Beauty, Hope and Wonder

1) Humankind loves to behold beauty (eyes, heart and mind). The stage, the band members, the confetti, the stage lights, the sparkling light wristbands (that everyone in the audience was wearing), displayed rainbows of colors. The moments illustrated C.S. Lewis’ quote that our greatest moments of beauty, adventure and intimacy in this life are glimpses of heaven. Also, that God planted eternity in the human heart: “He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart.”                        – Ecclesiastes 3:11

2) Humankind longs for hope. C.S. Lewis once wrote, “All joy…emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.” Pleasure, comfort, safety, security, good health, provision, enjoyment, seeing the world, loving people. The list could go on and on. If there is a Creator, there must be a Creation. If there is a Storyteller, human life lived to the fullest must be part of a greater story (paraphrased from G.K. Chesterton).

3) Humankind loves moments of wonder / adventure. “I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation” – C.S. Lewis. There is this “hard wiring” we are born with. One part says guard your life, another part says go for it, “it” being experiences of wonder and adventure. Life moments that make our heart race in a good way, like being mesmerized by nature, a roller coaster ride, serving others in love.

What beauty are you beholding today? What hope are you longing for? Do you have a memory, or something you are looking forward to that promises wonder and adventure?

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Filed Under: Creativity, Inspiration, Spiritual Journey Tagged With: adventure, Beauty, Coldplay, CS Lewis, Hope, Wonder

Comments

  1. Tom Sullivan says

    August 29, 2012 at 5:47 pm

    Stanton, I will never look at a Coldplay concert or any concert for that matter the same way again! Thank you for bringing such new light and beauty to an otherwise traditional experience of a concert. So beautifully written and expressed. Grateful that you are blogging! Tom

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    • Stanton Lanier says

      August 30, 2012 at 9:04 am

      Thanks for these words Tom! I really appreciate your encouragement. Looking forward to growing together in sharing our stories and inspiring other people’s stories. Stanton

      Reply
  2. Bobby Darnell says

    March 20, 2014 at 12:05 pm

    I think it is cool that you went to a Coldplay concert!

    Reply
    • Stanton Lanier says

      March 20, 2014 at 5:13 pm

      Thanks Bobby! Yes, art and creativity are amazing to take in, enjoy, and inspire our own art making too. Blessings to you!

      Reply

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