You may have noticed that most of my posts from the Festival of Faith and Writing consist of quotes that I scribbled down during the talks that caught my ear. Today, I was reading a friend, Eric Peter’s, latest post at the Rabbit Room, Ragged Stitches, and in a paragraph he wrote about his wife Danielle sewing, this line jumped out at me: “She makes people out of strangers, and keeps ragged stitches from ripping.” What a great thought – “She makes people out of strangers.” What if we did that more often?
I’ll try to get the rest of the posts from the Festival of Faith and Writing up sometime this week, if I have some time amidst the busyness of the week. This week is GMA (Gospel Music Association) week here in Nashville, so on the way home from the airport last night I met a friend at one of the writer showcases downtown and picked up the string score for music we are working on for the Dove Awards Wednesday night for Casting Crowns. Then tonight, some friends and I headed back downtown and caught the INO Records showcase, which included Caedmon’s Call and Sara Groves, and then walked a couple blocks over and heard Sara play a set at another showcase. Sara mentioned that It Might Be Hope, my favorite song from her new album, is her new radio single.
Tomorrow my favorite theologian, Bishop N.T. Wright, will be in town (not related to GMA week), so I’m meeting up with my friend Matthew Paul Turner and his pastor to hear Bishop Wright. I’m really looking forward to what I’m sure will be an inspiring and thought-provoking talk.