I have lived in Nashville twice for the sum total of four years.
In three weeks, The Mister and I will be living there again; this time in Franklin. Again.
In my stints away from Music City, I lived in the LA area for a few months — then, back to Nashville. In 2012, I committed to a year of school in Michigan and planned to return after that year was over.
Love entered the scene with balloons and marching bands and fireworks and a sparkly diamond and my days of being single ended on a beach in Hawaii.
I’ve now lived in the Davenport, Iowa area for eight months and the sights, sounds, food and the kind souls in the South have called us back.
After living in a lot of places in my thirty-three years of life, I have no doubt Nashville is one of the most creative, thoughtful, community-focused places…ever. And one of the things I’m looking forward to next spring is the LuminousProject.
Sadly, I missed the very first LP when I moved away, but I poured over the Tweets and photos my friends were posting.
Wait…wait…wait…What is the Luminous Project, anyway? Maybe I should answer that first.
LuminousProject is a contemplative movement and space for our souls to catch up to our bodies.
(I can hear my mom saying, “Well doesn’t that sound all hippy-dippy?”)
Look. We all need to rest. We need not to just see art, but experience it. We need not to just hear music, but feel it. We need not to just sit with people, but be with them.
Go to LuminousProject and you’ll hear from Makoto Fujimura, Glenn Packiam, Blaine Hogan and David Dark. You’ll take in ll Sons & Daughters, The Brilliance, Robbie Seay Band, Glenn Packiam, Daniel Bashta, Derek Webb, Anthony Skinner and Stu G. You’ll find space in sacred spaces led by Ian Morgan Cron, as well as curated environments throughout the building for prayer, creative art and other personal expressions of worship and centering.
It is not often I endorse things on my blog or through my social media channels, so when I do, know it is something I fully stand behind and participate in.
Check out the LuminousProject. Register now (prices are lowest now, but the space is also extremely limited). And let me know if I can count on seeing you there.
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3 responses to “Nashville is Luminous”
Sounds exciting!
My friends say “hippy-dippy” too….”happy-clappy” is a close second.
And here we were just getting to think that, since you were now living along the same highway we are (I-80), one of these days you’d just turn west, drive half way to San Francisco, and turn up at our door for a nice visit! No, not really – it’s a wee bit far; besides, we’d love you to find we’d moved on by then (appreciate your prayers on that). When or where that might happen, the Lord knows, but we hope.
We do hope that’ll prove a good move for you both. Besides Luminous, I would think it’d be a very good place for Tim to find video work. So we pray it’ll be the Lord’s place for both of you.
Prayers and love.
You know I’ll be there. Hopefully, on a panel sitting next to you and the Mister, talking about the culture and the big-C Church.
See you soon!
Kyle