CMA Fest 2012 (Part One)

I'm going to start out by saying this because it is the most recent thing that is on my mind. When I go on a trip somewhere, I ALWAYS bring two things, my iPod and a book. When I'm at home, I don't normally sleep with music on (although I used to do that all the time) but when I am away from home, I pick one cd and I listen to it every night. Last summer when I was in Colorado I listened to The Sparrow and the Crow : William Fitzsimmons. 
Now every time I hear that cd I have a fleeting memory of laying in the basement of my aunt's house and how I spent an entire day in that basement writing the song I'm All In. During this trip, in Nashville, I listened to Barton Hallow : The Civil Wars. Maybe years from now I will listen to that cd and it will bring back memories from my first trip to Nashville...Who knows? <3 The book I brought for the car ride was Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. That has always been my favorite H.P. book but if someone asked me why I wouldn't have been able to tell them....reading it again, I remember. I think it is the only H.P. book that has a completely happy ending....and I think that's why I love it so much. I finished that book halfway through the trip home....after awhile I wished I had brought another book to fill the time. So I started reading the book my dad brought, Red like Blood. I am about a hundred pages into it so far and it is so refreshing to read. When I was in Colorado I read a book called Blue like Jazz. That book completely changed how I see things. It is written by a Christian author and is basically about his life, but it was so honest that it moved me. My dad read it first and then he started telling me about it and so I read it and then I told my sister about it and she read it. We all read this one book(that actually belonged to one of my dad's friend's from work) in the two weeks we were in CO. Red like Blood is a lot like that. My dad isn't finished reading it yet but it has the same feel. It just reminds me of how good God's grace is.


Maybe years from now I won't remember the books I read or the music I listened to, but I will remember the things they made me feel. And everyone should spend some time feeling things every once in awhile I think.