zach pippin

If you know me at all, you know that  my favorite band ever is Angels and Airwaves. You’d also know that this past weekend was the release of their third album, LOVE, and that I’ve never been more excited about any other album in history.

A few months back AVA announced that the album would be released on 14 February 2010 for free. About a week ago fuel.tv announced that they would release it  two days early. So Thursday night I was waiting for the stroke of midnight, hoping that the album would drop. It didn’t. I then read that it would be released at 6pm. Ok, that’s not too bad…..Pacific time. Well, that sucks. At 9pm on Friday I was supposed to be in another city for Casey’s birthday.

Around 2:30 in the afternoon I noticed a countdown on the download site. It ended at 6 EST. Wonderful! I could just wait for the download, listen to it in the car, and Charity and I would arrive at Casey’s without missing much. 6pm came, but the album didn’t. Turns out the countdown, which hit zero, was lying. I was not a happy camper at all.

Charity and I hopped in the car and took off towards Casey’s. Snow had been falling for about 2 hours by then, but it was only just beginning to stick. As we drove, however, it worsened. We decided to turn around, and by the time we got back there was already a good inch or so on the roads. South Carolina roads that don’t get salted. We decided to head over to the 312 to hang out with our friends. We ended up having one of the greatest nights ever.

While sitting on top of a small, snow covered mountain (aka dirt pile in a quarry) looking at the most beautiful view I’ve ever seen in our city, Bryn said something to me that put everything into perspective. If that incorrect countdown had not been on the site I would have left earlier. I would have been in the middle of nowhere when the bad weather kicked in. I would have missed the fun times we had with our friends. She said that by having to wait for LOVE, the album, that God was showing His love for me.