Tell Us Your Unending Love Story!

Remnant Music Group is sponsoring a contest in an attempt to find the best unending love story! For the last year and a half Remnant Music Group and Christopher Ames have been promoting the CD titled EVERYDAY WITH YOU. As Christopher travels the country he continues to hear stories not only of how his CD project resonates with couples, but also stories of hope, inspiration, joy and encouragement in keeping the commitment of love alive in a relationship.

What is it that you think inspires an unending love story? We’re looking for your thoughts and ideas. It may be one line or a brief essay. Nonetheless, we are looking for inspirational stories of love and commitment. Christopher Ames and Remnant Music Group will review the submissions and select the top 3 entries. These entries will then be posted on Christopher’s website, and fans will be asked to select their favorite of the three. The top submission will receive a $100 American Express Gift Card (perfect for dining, shopping or travel), a $50 Gift Card for Barnes and Noble (inspired by the lyric in the song Love To Chance found on the CD), and an autographed copy of EVERYDAY WITH YOU by Christopher Ames. Runners up will also receive copies of Everyday With You. The winning submission will be featured in Christopher’s newsletter and will also be featured in his blog on his website.

So, what’s on YOUR heart? What do you think inspires an unending love story? Is it YOUR story? We want to know. Send your submissions to ca@christopherames.com. Be sure to include your full name, contact telephone number, your city, state and a return email address. You will be contacted if your submission is selected as one of the final three. Please note all submissions become the property of Remnant Music Group, but only the final three entries will be posted for public viewing.

(Deadline for submission is September 22, 2009 )

Slide Shows, Moving Boxes, and Time Travel

The older I get, the more often I have wished I could re-visit my past. Not so much in the sense that I have regrets or things I wish I could change (although I have a few), but more in the sense that I would like to re-experience moments, seasons, episodes of my life and really soak in them.

Recently, my family visited my parents and I showed my sons slides of me when I was their age. We especially enjoyed the pictures of Christmas seeing what toys I was playing with compared to what they are playing with now. Now, there is a time I would love to re-experience… the lead up to Christmas, the anxious waiting, the never ending night before and the long luxurious week of visiting relatives afterward…

While at my parents, they mentioned that there were two moving boxes with my name on them. This was stuff that had been moved around a couple of times and never unpacked, and basically forgotten. Before we left, I grabbed the boxes and brought them home. Imagine my surprise when I opened them and discovered a time machine…

The year I graduated from college, I spent about a month at home before moving to Dallas to start a 3 year stint with the band Watermark (no, the other Watermark). My folks moved not long after that, so these two boxes contained the contents of my room from that specific moment in time.

As I spent time looking through letters, notes, lyrics, books I had at the time… seeing some pictures, little odds and ends, trinkets that meant something at that point… I was transported back to those moments. It was like putting on my 22 year old self, with all of its emotions and dreams, with all of the fears and struggles… and for a few minutes, I was really there.

The best part, though, was discovering that I am no longer that 22 year old. These days the emotions and dreams are different, the fears and struggles have changed, but I am happy to be who I am, to be where I am, to be Whose I am. It was a gas to re-visit a pecific moment in my life, to actually feel I was in it again… but the best part of any vacation (whether traveling through time or across the country) is coming home again.