Living for Eden

A few weeks ago, on Monday April 6, I went to the benefit concert for Paul Cardaul. This concert was entitled "Living for Edan". Edan is Paul's daughter. As some of you may know, Paul was born with a heart condition. Throughout his life he has undergone may heart surgeries and treatments. He has had to take medication every day of his life to regulate these changes. Through it all though he has managed to work and write wonderful inspiring music for us all. He has also happened to get get married and have a wonderful daughter named Eden.

Paul is now in need of another heart transplant. To help raise money for this surgery his friends decided to throw him a benefit concert. All proceeds would be given to Paul and his family to help them in this time of need. This concert was held on April 6. All of the time and effort that was put into this by the musicians, stage crew, lighting, and publicity was all donated for free. For this night 1,500 people came together to support another.

The musicians at this concert where Kurt Bestor, Ryan Shupe and the Rubber Band, Colors, David Tolk, and Peter Brian Holt. Through these musicians and the stage crews talent this was an amazing concert. The stage crew was good and the music was great, but that is not what made this night so amazing. What did make it truly amazing is the love that was shown by everyone that participated.

With each musician came a sense of awe and wonder for Paul and his family. They each preformed songs that had made them think of Paul or songs that they had written for him and his family. With each performance came the support and admiration that they had for a man they all cared about. A man that they all wanted to help. A man that they all love. A man that performed at the end of the concert to show that he cared as well.

This concert was such an amazing concert because of everything that it combined and everything that it brought together. It not only combined great talent with amazing music, but it also brought together a wonderful group of friends and family. This concert brought together people, which in this world today is one of the greatest things that you can accomplish. Being able to unite that many people for one cause is one of the greatest things you can do. So many people came together to support another. To show another that they cared and that they were here. To help another in the only way that they knew how. It did not matter that most of us were strangers. It did not matter that you did not know the person you were sitting next to or the people in front of you. What mattered is that they were all there. They were all there to help one person and his family in their time of need. And that one thing is what united them all. It was having that one purpose in mind that made them all friends for the evening.

It is things like this that give me hope. That give me hope that one day the world may be united. united in one purpose. In one mind. In one heart. All it takes is a person who cares. A person who cares enough to find the common ground. A person who cares enough to unite.