Ever since I was in elementary school I noticed that a lot of money was poured into our sports programs while everything else, especially the music and art department got less funding. Of course, I could not explain it like that then. Now, I do love sports and I played Soccer and Basketball, but my real love was music and theater. These were my strongest gifts.
I pursued them and worked hard to be much better than good. I wanted to be great. Just like so many others all over this country in schools at any level, I worked with what I had. I got involved in the nearby community theater, which, thankfully, where I came from was truly excellent with a former Broadway entertainer as the director. There doesn't need to be any real discussion at this point regarding sports and that whole arena of money, funding and so on. It is what it is and, believe me, there is still lots of money out there for the arts, sciences and other aspects of education.
Over the years we've seen the growth and development of many great music and theater programs in many public and private schools. But, (and here I go again) within Christianity the money is usually not there. Yes, now and then, we find a Christian liberal arts college with huge (as Howie says) amounts of money put into this department. Then somewhere we find a group of people with dreams of making a film and someone steps up with a few million dollars to make it a reality. But far too often it is a struggle and fight to come up with the real funds to do something great. Hollywood has the money. Broadway has the money. Even most of our big Christian record labels were bought out by large secular record companies because... they had the money.
I have a dream and I believe that I've proven that it is worthy of funding. I believe that I've proven that I simply want to do something wonderful for God and the sake of humanity. But, I can't come up with the funding to take the dream to the highest level. No, I'm not alone. Others dream. Others work hard. Others thank God for the simple way in which He uses them. I promise to keep doing the same. I promise to be a good steward with what I have. But I can't help asking the question; Why can't that one person who has the money in hand just come forth and say, "here's all you need to make this dream come true. Here's the money" ??? This is at least something for discussion.
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