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so unbelievably wild, and so constant. I think [Darlene] There’s this scripture in Isaiah inspiring and a bit frustrating at the same time. people look at the people on a platform, or where the enemy is talking about how he was In Chapter 2 you remind us that the Lord’s people in leadership, and they say, “Oh look, it’s the chief music maker, and his whole language prayer is about “…the all in all-ness of the easy for you guys, you don’t have any issues was I, me, my… “I am this… I was that”, and if fullness of God—on this side of heaven!” While or problems.” And I guess I wanted to squash we don’t watch it, it becomes the language of it’s kind of obvious that we’re all still growing in that myth and go, you know what, everybody pride. We’ve got to be really careful that it’s us, God, what advice do you have for those of us walks through fire, everybody walks through it’s we, that it’s a shared experience. God saved who don’t have the depth of field that you do? the valley of the shadow of death at times in me, I am that beloved and He is mine, and that’s their lives, and yet God says He will never leave beautiful. But when we come to the experience [Darlene] I think often it’s a journey of sight. us. I had these revelations along the way and of humanity and life, it’s us, it’s we, it’s family, it’s Rather than going, “I’m not spiritual enough” I just wanted to write about them, and that’s the church, and it’s the table. “I” means you can think, “What am I looking for in my day? What “The Golden Thread”. find yourself isolated and being filled with your am I looking for here?” Because I think we see own thoughts, which might move you down a what we’re looking for, I think that’s what we path that is hard to come back from. find. I don’t think it’s about one being more [WM] You used the word “our” as opposed to “my”. Can you unpack your take on how our spiritual. Even yesterday one of my daughters vocabulary reflects a collective journey versus [WM] In the introduction you share, “His love was like, “Seriously Mom, stop being spiritual!” a solo one? for me still catches me by surprise.” That’s both (laughs) because I’m a little bit like that in my Hillsong // “Shout to the Lord” Darlene Zschech / “Forever My King” Darlene Zschech with Bethel Music // “No Longer Slaves” + “Surrounded” April 2019 Subscribe for Free... 89