So after all we had been through, I had found a christian artist that I really liked! +Matthew West. He did a cd called "The Story Of Your Life". All the songs on that cd were from stories that people had sent him about things going on in their lives! Great concept! Great cd! love it!!
Well, on his facebook page, he had a link called 'tell me your story'. He was looking for more stories for his next cd. I sent him ours'. Lo and behold, I got a phone call from one of his people, and he said that Matthew loved my story and was going to call me to talk about it! He gave me a date when he would call. I anxiously awaited that call!
When he called, he introduced himself (uhhh, yeah! I know it's you! I've been waiting for your call!) He told me that he loved the story! He loved how transparent I was in it! He said that he'd received around 20,000 stories, and the ones he received about struggling marriages mostly ended with the couple splitting up. He loved the fact that ours' ended well!
He wrote a song about it titled "Restored", and it's on his latest cd "Into The Light"! Awesome! Very cool!!!
But wait....there's more!
He said we were invited to spend a weekend in Nashville with him, and some others that sent him stories he used for songs! He'd get back to us with the date!
Of course, we were very worried, because Cheryl is a photographer with her own business, and had several weddings booked! Oh no! It's gonna be a weekend that we can't go!
Not so fast. God's got other things in mind.
When we got the call about the date, it happened to be the same week we had planned our vacation! Go figure! So, we decided to go down early and make a vacation out of it! We got there Tuesday, and saw the sights around Nashville (loved it!!!) waiting for our weekend with Matthew and the others!
So Friday gets there, and we meet Matthew, and find that he has the weekend planned. That night he took us to a banquet just for our group. He had a stage set up with all the instruments, and after dinner his band played, for the first time in public, the entire cd! Wow! It was great!!
After each song, he called the person, or persons that inspired the song, on stage and talked a little bit about their story, and awarded each of us a framed, signed plaque with the hand written lyrics of the song from his journal! Unbelievable!
Then, Saturday night he took us all to the Grand Ole Opry where he performed a couple songs, as well as several other performers! What a treat that was!!
What an incredible weekend! What an experience of a lifetime! To meet him! To meet and hang with other 'storytellers'! To realize that everybody has a story! All I can say is WOW!
Here's the link to us from Matthew's website, and a little blurb about our story.
http://matthewwest.com/the-stories/the-story-restored/
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