Laela Dasher Skinner
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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I mean, honestly, like these songs, it was God just like placing them exactly where they were supposed to be. There's a lot of refining. We've been writing these for, what, two years now?
Yeah, I mean, yeah, some of those songs, I guess, have been in years and years and years. But we wrote that last song just a few weeks ago. And we wrote it like we were like, we need a song just like high praise into the night type of thing. Because it's called Songs for the Anxious Heart. We're taking a lot of our scripture from the Psalms because like the key of the whole, it is a concept album.
So it really does move you through a journey of like, anxiety to peace only through Jesus and he's the only answer. And yeah, Reeves can probably speak into that a lot too. Yeah.
The worship wash.
I mean, I think that it's so crazy how even in a year your heart can change so much to like in your desires, honestly. because I felt like I went into that having this desire to obviously make it far and then maybe release my own stuff after and dot, dot, dot, whatever that looks like. And I remember going in thinking like, like, this is it.
Like the same thing with the, like, this is my, this is what's going to, so the nail in the coffin for me, I would be able to quit school and do this whole time. And it wasn't that, uh, we made it through like three rounds and then we're cut. And honestly, like it was God's blessing and provision that that happened that way.
Um, honestly, even from like, just like a contractual side of things, like just being able to be out then and terminating that because they have a contract with that show and getting to really focus on Ella Worship full-time. So I think rather than a disappointing experience, it was a clarifying experience for me. I'm not supposed to be in that world. And at the end of the day, it's a TV show.
So there's going to be things that are narrated in scripts, whatever. Um, but yeah, it was a clarifying experience. I remember leaving and flying home. And two weeks later I got married. Like it was like so quick. And then like that next Sunday I was leading worship at church.
And I was just like, man, this is like, or the Sunday after I got married, when I got home from my honeymoon and started leading worship at church. And then things started picking up with Ella worship. And I was just like, man, this is like, like, this is where my heart is. It's like for the church. And I will say, um, that God is always moving. He is moving everywhere.
So I remember being in Hollywood and being on the show, and there were so many worship moments that broke out that the production team would have to come and be like, guys, you want to be quiet down? This is too much. Just because people just praising God.
Yeah, every day, just worship, worship, worship breaks out. And they said, this happens every year. And it's because I think that when you get that many musicians together, the believers come together. And I saw people deeply touched by that. To this day, people I know whose lives were changed just from getting to experience worship. American Idol also honors Christians really well.
They honor the people that sing worship music. So that's really cool about that show. So that was really cool. It was encouraging to me. But at the end of the day, like I really think that anything that, I believe that anything that is like worthwhile is going to take hard work and it's not an overnight thing. And it's a process.
Like we were talking about earlier, like Ella worship has been a process. And I think that it was a great experience, but I'm so grateful how it turned out. I'm so grateful I didn't make it further than I did so that I am free to do the things that I'm doing now. And yeah, like my heart just, I don't know.
There's something even just in the past, like two months, I'm just like, man, I agree with Reeves. Like, I just, I want to go back to what it's all about. And like, that is, it is all about him, you know? And it looks different because like, I always go back to the Psalms, um,
I got an opportunity to do this like residency summer thing where we were studying the Psalms, like deep dive into the Psalms and writing songs from the Psalms. And it's so beautiful.
Oh, yeah. Shout out Shane and Shane. They're amazing.
Well, I remember like, okay, full transparency. I remember like for a season not wanting to do Christian music at all because in my mind I was like, ah, that's boring. Like there's these rules that you have to like follow and you have to like And almost like it was like creatively limiting, if that makes any sense. And I just, I don't know why that was.
I don't know if that's because I've grown up in the church. I don't know. And then God started giving me like more language for who he is and for his glory and more language for his goodness. And I started reading, like I did that deep dive into the Psalms. I'm like, man, there is something. so much beauty here. This is the furthest thing from boring. This is stunning, the language.
And I mean, there's Psalm 51, Psalm of Repentance, songs for the repentant heart. There are songs for the anxious heart in the Psalms. There are songs for the people that have been deeply wronged and want justice. And those are kind of hard to read because it's like... God, would you like smash my enemies against a rock? You know? Yeah.
Those are called imprecatory songs. That's what we call it. Um, I haven't heard a lot of songs that come out of this, but,
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