Welcome to the Experience Jesus Calling Podcast.

Recently we got a chance to speak with Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter Amy Grant by phone.

Amy has been working on a new Christmas record that is slated to release in October.

Amy shares a little bit about what went into making that record, and where she is in her

faith journey after nearly four decades of being a popular recording artist, in addition to her roles as wife, mother, daughter, sister, and friend.

I'm Amy Grant and I'm a singer-songwriter and have been since I was a teenager.

I have three sisters that I see all the time.

I'm a mom of a blended family of five and most of us live in the Nashville area and now I have one grandson who's two.

Life is crazy.

How did this happen?

I've made a lot of Christmas music over the years. Let me see 1983, 1992, 1999, some new songs in 2009. I can't even say exactly why. This felt like the exact right time

to do some new Christmas music, but it just did. I'm back in the swing of touring, actually as intensely as I was

touring at Christmas time 20 years ago, and I never saw that coming. But so glad for the opportunity.

But this record is different.

Years ago, Vince put a studio in our house

because he actually does a lot of studio work.

So it was a way for him to be home a lot more than he would have been.

But for this record, you know, I worked with three different producers they all have

studios and they were just you know they want they said well we'll probably just

work on familiar territory and if you don't mind coming to us and I said that's fine

and then i but i started talking about the record and I said what I want somebody that's just fixing a meal alone in the kitchen to feel like this feels like good company. I want it to talk about the fun things but also include the hard sentimental and sad things about Christmas.

This year is different because this loved one passed away,

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