Happenings

This past Sunday, I went back to the College/Career Sunday School at church, and afterwards I was invited to go out to lunch with a group of people. Woohoo! I was very excited to meet a lot of new people, including one girl I met named Christina. Most people around here have never heard of JMU, but Christina went to JMU! That of course made for quick bonding and I'm excited to make new Nashville friends.

This week at work has been mostly non-eventful, with a few notable exceptions. Monday morning I got to sit in on a staff meeting which was vastly entertaining. Today, was an exciting day, first, I got to go to a writer's breakfast with various artists, and producers and songwriters who came to mingle and hear from the president of publishing about the state of the music industry. Eddie DeGarmo is the president of publishing and he is truly one of the most inspirational people I've ever encountered. Eddie is one of the guys from the famous Christian duo - Degarmo & Key. Of note, they were the first Christian group to ever get a music video on MTV. This past Monday night, Eddie was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. Then this afternoon I got to help with the filming of some "webisodes." EMI CMG Publishing runs the website WorshipTogether.com, which is a worship resource for churches. They put up lyrics, and guitar chords (I've typed up a number of those song lyrics as an intern. . . ) and video clips, etc. Well, these videos we filmed today, we had various artists come in and discuss the story behind the song, play a little bit of the song and then explain how to play it for people following at home. It was really cool!

I am now getting to that point where my internship, and my life here is becoming more "normal" for me. I'm going to be looking for a job here in the upcoming week, but I'm still considering the implications that'll have on my time - so if you all could be praying for that, I'd really appreciate it. I wish I had something profound to say, and leave you all with but my eloquence is not with me at present. But you can be sure that as soon as I get a moment of profound inspiration, I will post it here. For now, enjoy this gorgeous picture that I absolutely love.