Can you walk us through kind of the process that you went through, how you got to the album?

Yeah, I mean, it was definitely a handful of years in the making.

You know, I have been signed with Bethel Music since 2018, and I was young when I was signed.

I'm 33 now.

Um, and so as a young songwriter, you know, learning from the Brian Johnson's learning from, you know, the McClure's and learning from, you know, Jen and Christine DeMarco, like all of these like very well seasoned songwriters.

Um, and so I think it took me a little bit to kind of get into like, who is Bethany? Like who, like what do, like, what am I called to, you know, write about? What am I like? What is the Lord putting on my heart? Um, Because I don't want to just release more noise into the world.

And so it took me on this journey of, you know, just writing as much as I possibly could any like songwriting opportunity that I could get into a room with writers that were, you know, could be like brand new writers, could be, you know, the Mitch Wongs and the Aiden Kings, you know, could be those people in the room.

What's that experience like and how do you shift your mindset and your heart?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Um, and, um, and so we really were close, um, and still are very close.

Um, but I think that it was in those moments where I'm like, "I will never let..." I, it was like this big sister, like, I will never let anything wrong happen to you ever again.

I can't believe that...

And not that I put blame on myself or anything along those lines, but just watching them walk through what they did and maintain- And steward the love that they have for Jesus.

And yeah, don't get me wrong, there's, there's good days and there's bad days, and there's, you know, there's, there's days where there's, you know, what, what if? Like, what if I had done something different, or what if I had, you know...

Yeah.