Just kidding! After 30 years and 2 attempts I finally got to meet Amy Grant, my favorite Christian artist and probably the one “celebrity” I most wanted to meet since it was her song, “Fairytale” from her Father’s Eyes Album 30 years ago that was the inspiration for my book, The Victor.

I just wish I had not been sweating for 10 hours straight before I did. I looked like a wreck and she looked…well, she looked gorgeous. I think she is one of the most naturally beautiful women I have ever seen. I got to spend just a couple of minutes with her before she went onstage to perform at the end of a very long, hot day. Just enough time to show her the book her song inspired, let her know about our mutual acquaintenace, John Styll (current President of The Gospel Music Association and my former boss at CCM) and the fact that we both had a daughter with the same name. Mine spelled Karina; hers spelled Corrina.

Showing her the book and telling her that it had been her song that inspired it jogged her memory but she admitted that she had not read it yet. I left right after getting the photo. It was 7:30 by that time and all I wanted was to get into a hot shower and clean off.  I found out later that night that had I or any of the other authors stayed longer we would have gotten the opportunity to go aboard her bus for 45 minutes and really get to talk with her and have her sign things for us but it was a last moment decision on her part and most of us had already left having been there all day.

As it would turn out, I found out that since we were not able to do that, that she asked for all of our emails (and also got my home address). I wonder what will come in the mail….?

So my life has come full circle at last, here below is the picture of Amy and I (she’s the tall gorgeous one on the left).