My favourite little page is a little page right in the middle of a daddy on the floor half asleep.

That just reminds me of what it was like, you know, Keith in the floor and me crawled in beside them,

humming a song or playing a song and using those songs to help bring a calm and comfort as we go to sleep

and also just using them

to form the basis of our prayers, and you're so tired at the end of the day. A song can be,

this is the easiest thing to reach for, let's use this song as our prayer tonight. So that page

in the book is particularly personal to what my experience has been with our kids.

Kristen Getty is an author and Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter.

She and her husband Keith co-founded the Getty Music Organization,

which is dedicated to helping people learn the truths of the Bible

through singing hymns that they can carry for a lifetime.

Christian's newest book is We Sing,

teaching kids to praise God with heart and voice from Crossway. Kristen, thanks so much for joining me

today on the Crossway podcast. Thanks for having me. So you and your husband, Keith, have spent years

helping the church to sing together. You've written hymns, you've led conferences,

you've sung and performed around the world. But now with this new picture book that you've written,

we sing, you're trying to help kids and families to see that singing together isn't just for

Sunday mornings. So I wonder to start us out, can you just summarize why is it that singing together

is so important for everyday family life?

Yeah.

Well, one of the things that I like to tell my kids and then other children who I get to chat

to you about these things is that singing is for every day, singing is for everyone,

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