How often do you hear worship songs being sung live in the comforts of your day-to-day living? For sure, there are a dime a dozen. Some you commonly share with the person next to you, featuring songs by popular Christian Artists. But there's a certain form of unique sincerity when one discovers a worship song that is yet to break through to a larger audience. This is how the song "Hiding Place" by DBU Chapel Worship featuring Olivia-Grace McKern felt like when I first listened to the song. It felt like a new testimony being told, of one's dedication to find God and remain in his presence.
Taking root from Psalm 32, the song is a collaboration of Olivia with a host of songwriters from the DBU Chapel Worship. Enriching her experience as a songwriter and moving her through the songwriting process. In perhaps a reflection of what the song eventually became, it wasn't so that Olivia conveniently hid behind the DBU Chapel Worship songwriters/musicians. This song is a collaborative product that reflected her struggles during her "down season" and then her eventual liberation from it with the unified songwriting process that felt cathartic.
It is Olivia's hope that the product that came to be, the song "Hiding Place," will also touch and bless anyone who is in need of God's Love and Grace. For every worry, for every challenge, and for every down season we have, trust that God will always be there for us. That his love will always be a Hiding Place that we can all come home to. To recharge, to heal, to find peace. And with God in our lives, it is more than enough to survive in this world that is full of challenges.
(Related scripture: Psalm 32:7; Romans 8:1; John 8:36)
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