Page nine of the unfolding is the story of Jim Eisenminger.

I just came away from that, knowing that I needed to let that go and accept that it was okay to not be in control of what our path was going to be.

God's story has been unfolding.

Since the beginning of time.

He invites you to be a part of it.

Another page in the unfolding.

Hi, this is Meredith Foster. It feels good to be in control. We spend a lot of our time and energy working to control our finances, our weight, our schedule. There's this thing called the

illusion of control where we overestimate our ability to manage the outcomes. That was true for

Jim Eiseninger, particularly when it came to his kids. When he and his wife began praying about

adoption, she felt called to do something that felt too risky. That's when God used Cornerstone,

a Christian music festival, to change Jim's heart. God needed to loosen his grip on control so he would be willing to take a risk.

So what was it like? What was Cornerstone like in that experience for you?

Well, I had been to other music festivals and was really excited by the lineup. My boys were kind of becoming of the age where I could start taking them to shows.

And so we went excited about the music and the immersion and all that.

And what I was not prepared for was the realization and the kind of revelation of how broad the body of Christ is.

A community and a gathering that reflected just love and just an absolute feeling of this,

you know, you shall know me by your love type of feeling when you were there.

And yet it being a crowd that, you know, had a lot of people that looked like they came right from church or Sunday school and a lot of people with piercings and tattoos and gauged ears and black lipstick.

And yet everyone was there in this sense of togetherness and love and peace and just

this radical kind of embrace and love across all these lines that in every other piece of

society are dividing points. Is that the first time you'd experience something like that?

It really was. It was an eye-opener for me. And I had never, I had been

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