... I feel like the songs from ‘Grace’ wrote themselves. Some are oldies that are well-worn. And some of the newies - they began as tiny hums that appeared when I took a Summer job as a research fellow at a University, conducting interviews for a new Australian Government initiative, providing better funding to people with disabilities. I would fly to a different city and make my way into people’s homes. I sat in hundreds of kitchens and lounge rooms and heard the stories of singles and families affected by disability in many different ways. I laughed harder than I’d ever laughed before, and I cried – usually on the way home. It occurred to me that this was not “just a job” to prepare for my PhD – this was a gift, a window into the lives of ordinary Australians who found themselves outside of the ‘normal’ (whatever that is!). But this was also a place in which God was. And so I started to write songs for these families. Songs through the night seasons of life, songs of joy and songs that declare that God my Redeemer lives (Job 19:25). I am honoured to have worked with some of the best Australian worship writers; Trevor Hodge, Jonathon Reichardt, Benjamin Grace, Scott Groom, Adam Jones and Tim Sheerman (in no particular order!). Each of them attends a different church with different worship traditions – Emergent through to Pentecostal/Charismatic through to Presbyterian and Anglican. But this Kingdom song is unified. And with Peter King, a talented producer I’ve known for m