as talking head maximilian tam (f2fb #45) says “fame first, money will come, and the women will follow”. . . in the case of the meeks of kearney, missouri they are doing everything they can to elude fame.
matt (f2fb #135) and connie (f2fb #136) met while performing in a country music variety show in st. joseph, missouri more than a dozen years ago. nashville called them because nashville has one currency–talent. the meeks packed up, anxious to be stars–and that’s when they found out they were pregnant with their first child.
there are a lot of choices they could have made. ones that would have resulted in their pictures on the cover of people magazine and their stories on tmz.com. but they literally turned the car around on i-435 and picked a place to raise a child.
“we didn’t want to bring a child into the world of touring,” connie explained.
they chose kearney. or maybe kearney chose them. and while here, their faith has deepened. matt, who had turned away from the church, was baptized only a few years ago. they are in the music ministry of the kearney covenant church. i remember being at a service more than two years ago when they presented a song they had written. i asked them to play it for me again.
i am convinced this song will be a hit on the christian music scene. and then they had better get themselves a mansion with a pool and invite me over.
“but we don’t want to be famous,” connie said as she and matt scooted off into the night.
“fame will find you,” i said.
arlynnpresser 
May 29th, 2011 at 1:42 am
How beautifully you captured part of our story. One we don’t tell very often. Guess it’s that hiding from fame thing again. I guess if it does ever find us, we’ll need a biographer to write our full story. You’d be the only one I’d trust. Thank you for this writing. We still don’t quite hear or see what you do, but we are so glad you are moved by the words and music we have been led to write. That, in the end, is what matters.
May 29th, 2011 at 10:14 pm
i will happily be the biographer for the meeks family. and i am glad for your music. it makes me cry every time i listen to it!