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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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