Worship Musician June 2019 | Page 40

great. But I’ve never been that way, I’ve always me, and I can say, “Not today. You’re not going been an emotional writer, so everything that I to bother me today! I’m not believing your write I try to write from my heart. I’m like, “How lies”. When I was learning that lesson it was can this help people? A song like “Wildflowers” me comparing myself to other females on the was a fun song because it just made me tour, and just feeling really small and saying, “I remember how growing up in Georgia was with didn’t think people were even listening to me, four siblings, and we were always wanting to grow up. Once we were grown up, we wanted they’re still coming to get their seats when I’m Me onstage”. I was asking, “Why am I here, Lord”? to go back and be young again. I enjoy writing songs from that place of being a child or about wrote “Me” just from this real place. I struggled I wrote the song “Me” just because if I felt like things I went through in my life, and hopefully for a minute when I was on a tour last year. I was braver or stronger or tougher, maybe my it’ll help encourage someone else. Once I started down this path of making career would be farther along. And I though Christian Music, I thought I would be protected that’s probably such a common thing for [WM] Your new release, Out of My Hands, is from the enemy. That I was going to be good… people to do, it’s so easy to fall into the trap awash with some beautiful and healthy lyrical nothing was going to get to me that bothered of comparing yourself to someone else. So themes of identity and self-worth, which many me before; you know, super naive. that song came from a place of trying to see folks struggle with. The new single, “Me”, ourselves the way God sees us. Because declares the things that we can be. It’s been But the very first week I was out on tour, Satan when we see flaws in ourselves, God sees said that there are a lot of things that we are knew my insecurities, he knew my weakness, this beautiful thing that He’s made in His own not, but also a lot of things that we are! How and he came for me out of the gate. It was image. And even with our flaws, He can use have you processed this learning? a lesson for me to be able to learn where I those to help other people. I was just really struggle, and I can at least recognize it now trying to change the vantage point of how I saw and be able to speak it out before he gets to myself, and hopefully to help remind people [Mallary] These are really great questions! I 40 June 2019 Subscribe for Free...