Worship Musician August 2019 | Page 15

strong. These are badges, Mia, these are like think you’re just the best Girl Scout I know. beautiful badges. Friendly and helpful, honest the Hymnal in our Baptist church growing up, and we would sing, “Oh a hill far away stood and fair, you make the world a better place, I grew up in a day that you guys don’t have, an old rugged cross…” and then the next song you’re the promise center. You have respect and I’m not going to say, “Gosh you have it would be “I exalt thee, I exalt thee…” and you because you respect authority and you respect easy, because I grew up in the dinosaur age.” could feel the shift and the atmosphere change yourself. You’re responsible for what you say I kind of did, but I am absolutely so undone in the room, and I was curious about that flip. I and what you do. You use your resources that God gave me the year he had me born in was curious about that change, so I became a wisely, and I love this one… you’re a buddy to come into my own when worship, even for seeker of the presence of the Lord. Then when camper. You count it up, you safeguard, you’re women, wasn’t a commodity. We had no CCLI, I found out that God was this super creative an investigator, and eco-learner, and a good CCLI was a group of people talking about how guy that literally spoke through the creative, He neighbor. You make great choices, and money wouldn’t it be great if worship leaders could would have these conversations with me. I was counts with you. You’re an outdoor art maker, actually get paid something? Because we telling Mancini yesterday that way back in the you give back, and you’re an inventor. And the were never paid by a church to lead worship. 90’s the Lord would have these conversations list can just go on and on and on, and I felt When we were writing songs we were writing with me, as I was a nanny in these very wealthy you needed to hear it publicly because where simple melodies, because when we would homes in Seattle. And He would say, “One day I’m a mother you’re a mother coming up and sing the presence of God would step into the singers are going to leave the church because God has given you the language to see straight atmosphere and people would get healed. the church won’t be able to contain what’s in into the heart and bones of people, and lets I wanted to write songs so that bones would there, they won’t understand what lyrics are you see past all that stuff. Even though we come back together, I wanted to write songs pulsating out of them, and you’ll see them on both have these titles that sometimes make us so that God would be in the atmosphere, TV shows and in competitions.” non-presentable in a room because we are not because of the spirit of God when he fell… willing to lie, it is actually a badge from heaven, even in the Baptist church. I remember when And I don’t know if you caught on that so many so I just want to honor you today because I the Maranatha Praise Chorus Book slid next to American Idols and all those things, most of August 2019 Subscribe for Free... 15