Greenbelt

When we are free to say "no"

The wisest thing I've read in a long time is this:

Only when we are free to say "no" can our "yes" be authentic.

Read it again. Think about it.

It's from Greenbelt's approach to young people but it's too significant to be restricted to that audience.

Only when we are free to say "no" can our "yes" be authentic.

These words should be on the front of the festival website. They inform and explain so much of what Greenbelt's about. Because if you don't have the forum to challenge what you believe, are you really believing? Or are you just following someone else's rules?

Take a look at the Greenbelt website. The first names of this year's festival lineup have been announced today, and the theme of the festival is Freedom Bound.

Only when we are free to say "no" can our "yes" be authentic.

Free? Bound? Choose to be free. Choose to be bound.