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You Surround Me

As I set out to do final preparations for my first recording based on the worship songs I had written, I found myself longing to sing at least one song that hadn't been written or initiated by me. I've spent a big chunk of the last years encouraging and producing other worship leaders' songs, because I want to be someone who releases others into their calling. A few months before the live recording, Daphne played me a song that was really catching on at her church, which was written by Karen Padgett, one of the pastors and worship leaders at "Friends Langley Vineyard." The melody was so beautiful, and as soon as I heard the words "You surround me..."etc. I imagined them being sung in English and Gaelic. I didn't know that Celtic spirituality is very important to Karen, and she had actually starting writing the song on a trip to Scotland. Hearing Kim McKevitt sing and speak in Gaelic was a special gift to me, as I love hearing people sing and worship in their native language.

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