Bebo - Well, I think the deal with that was that it was something that I talked about a few times from stage because I had so many people that seemed so desperate towards thinking that being married was a solution for loneliness. I don't think it is necessarily. Not just being married in general. I talked about those things and I think that people just clung to it because it's a real sensitive issue. It's sort of a strange thing because in the Christian community it's not publicly frowned on but ... It's like it's OK to be single when you're going through college but when you start getting older there's this strange pressure that you need to be finding someone soon. You need to be building a family soon. It ends up being kind of a cultural push on a cultural Christianity level. So I just started talking a lot about the things that I had discovered being single. It was one of those things that people just sort of gravitated towards it because they were hearing what they needed to hear for the first time, in a setting that was speaking to Christians. It was cool, really cool, to take that and run with it. The irony of all that is that a little over a year ago I started dating this girl and it's been a really cool process to be in a place where I wasn't in a place where I had to have somebody. It was, again, just a matter of timing and where God would have me. I think ultimately a year and a half ago I wasn't even capable of being in this relationship. Now I am. So that process has been a really fun one to watch. It's been ironic with all of the stress on me being single. Me and my girlfriend actually just got engaged about three weeks ago. We'll be getting married this fall.
Kim - Congratulations!
Bebo - Yeah, so that's our plan. Basically our plan is to get married at the end of this fall tour and I'm looking forward to it.
Kim - I'll be interested to see, as your relationship grows and you settle into the routine of being married, especially with you being a public figure, on the road, from a writers perspective, how this will change your songs.
Bebo - I will too. It's been one of those things where I really don't know what it will look like. I have this fear of putting pressure on myself to write songs to express something to people. One of the strange things that I think is ironic as well is that I've really just learned, and this all goes along with me getting ready to get married, that I've been on the road for seven or eight years playing music and it's been a beautiful thing, but I'm learning a great deal about the fact that real ministry and real life and real, I guess, really affecting things can be done from a stage, and can be done on a large scale, but I feel like what we're really called to is really just a few relationships. That's why being home was such a beautiful thing. I love getting to do what I do, but if you really look at what Jesus did, He definitely spoke to groups of people but the vast majority of what Scripture is dedicated to is His time spent with just a handful of people and that managed to change the world. I feel like if He's an example, and I certainly believe that He is, then really we're called to the same thing. I feel like a lot of times we get caught up in looking at what we want to do for the masses and how we want to change the world that we forget to look at the people in front of us. I'm kind of learning the value of that. It's been a huge thing to really be able to sit down and begin to invest in people right around me. Not begin to, but to really realize that that's what I'm called to. I love to play music but it doesn't define me. I love to play shows, but they don't define me. I love the relationship you can have with fans, but it's never going to be a relationship where you truly both know each other. I think that's been one of the ways that God has really transitioned me in the last year and a half into really being capable of being in a relationship where I am prepared to make a decision to stay there. In the past I always was moving on so it was very easy to just be in a relationship, pour into it momentarily, get all that you could out and then take off again. That's what I did. So I'm learning the value of what it is to stick around for the first time. That's been a huge thing for me.
Kim - Well Bebo, I know that you have to hit the stage in a few minutes so we need to wrap it up, but this has been great. I'm glad that I finally got to meet you. Of course, that hometown goodwill goes both ways, so I'll expect wedding pictures!
Bebo - Oh definitely, definitely. I'll tell Micah to make sure you get some. It has been great, we'll have to talk again.
