[WM] What about this season touched you lot of worship music these days, both musically think that any good art is compelling, it makes
the most and how did it take shape for you in and lyrically. From the fire to (Bethel Music you ask questions, it makes you think, and
terms of this release? CEO Joel Taylor’s son) Jaxon’s miraculous she’s done that. For me, it’s one of those pieces
healing, this is an album born out of a collective that makes me want to chew on it.
[Kalley] We’ve been in the thick of it. The fire experience. One that is markedly different than came through Redding and we thought we were a traditional song writing session in Nashville. I was in Worship U the first time I had heard
fine because we were across the river, and fires How did this experience serve to bring the the song. The Helsers were doing a set and
don’t jump rivers. My husband and two of my team together even more? they introduced this song, she stepped up,
girls were here and we just felt certain we were
and what moved in me so profoundly was the
fine. Then a tornado grew inside of the fire, it [Kalley] Jaxon, it’s incredible the way that we reality of someone singing out of where they
jumped the river directly into my neighborhood all gathered and huddled around and brought came from. I don’t know if anyone can sing
and ate up sixty-five homes surrounding us. I our prayers and our cry before the Lord it quite like she does because she dug down
looked out my dining room window and I could together. What that does in uniting people is deep to where she came from, to her system,
see burn out the back. astounding. Not only in our community, but we to her family, to her people, and she found a
heard a worldwide cry on his behalf. It became language from her history and she’s propelling
That really started something in me in about everybody’s victory when he experienced us all forward through it. I feel those systems
the consciousness of God. Where are you victory. when I hear that song and I think that’s what’s
before the rebuilding? Where are you before
so compelling to me. It speaks of a history,
everything is resolved? Where are you before There is nothing like the camaraderie when you it points to generations and people groups. I
we have the answers – before there’s beauty for march out onto a battlefield with the people think it’s giving sound to an existing voice, but
ashes, because sometimes it’s not immediate. around you, and you realize what matters and it’s a fresh and new one, and it’s being delivered
Sometimes you have to clear out the rubble, what doesn’t. You’ve got people alongside of from her mouth.
and sometimes you have questions but you you who are risking the same things to see don’t have answers. But you always have His what’s on the other side, and I do think it’s I just have never heard anyone do it quite like
presence there! bonded us together and given a new common she does because I think it’s in her that way. I
language in a way that only those kinds of think that universally we could look at the song
It challenged me to continue to ask what is it experiences can. I do see this binding factor and find ourselves in it, that everyone can fit it
about His presence that’s good news for the that’s happened on the other side, and I think in their mouths and it rings true to them. I think
poor? What is it about His presence that’s good the songs are a reflection of that. it’s real magic when were able to blend that
news for my neighborhood, even before we’re
with where we came from. That particular and
rebuilt better than we were? What do I get [WM] Molly Skaggs’ song “Ain’t No Grave” uniquely original sound that’s inside of each and
to learn here that makes Him ‘hope enough’ is so different, but fits so amazingly well. The every one of us, gives permission for everyone
for this place? What kind of victory means swampy, Blues-laden vibe is almost more of an else to find that in themselves too. I think that’s
something here? experience than a song. What about this one what she’s done, and it is astounding, it’s
spoke to you? incredible, and to answer your question I hope
So just personally for me, watching that not
there’s more. I hope there’s more from her, I
only hit my neighborhood, but Him begin to [Kalley] Yeah, absolutely! I think what she’s hope there is more from different regions, from
really unearth things in my own heart. Things done is an astounding piece of art beyond just different countries, that the heart of what she’s
that probably were unanswered and needed what those minutes of the song give. I actually done is pursued and extracted by the church in
His comfort, needed His presence. I needed
that same way.
the answer of who He is and not just what He
does to come meet me. I feel like we’re just not [WM] In watching the preview for “Bright
singing about this stuff, we walked through it. Ones” (the forthcoming movie from Bethel),
The weighty walking through things alongside I was really moved by how well the movie
the Lord step by step. It’s a very near and dear portrayed the unique dynamics that so many
topic to me, the victory on the other side and creatives experience around their art. Be it
who He is in the middle of battle as well. pitch, tone, or being able to hear yourself, there
is a lot of internal noise that can get in the way
[WM] The feel of this album is different than a
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Sung by Molly Skaggs
March 2019
of doing that which He’s already gifted us to do.
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