December 2, 2025 • 31 mins
For Natalie Grant her new album is a homecoming. She's been wanting to release another Christmas album since her first came out in 2005... and this year, she's done it!
"Christmas" is full of nostalgic tracks taking Natalie back to her childhood singing carols around the piano with her family, and the album also features two brand new originals: one playful, and the other spine-tinglingly beautiful.
Join the lady with a heart as beautiful as her music and me, as we talk about "Christmas" and the reason for the season!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hello, my friend. Welcome, Welcome to love Someone with Delilah,
I have a question, where in the world is fall gone?
Where it flew by faster than the leaves could jump
off their branches and dance fluttering to the ground. It's
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all hands on deck now, getting ready for the big
day Hanukkah and Christmas. Just around the corner. Bardemy still
expects the Sears Catalog wishbook to arrive in the mail.
Those were the days my siblings and I would lay
on the floor, pour over the pages, turning down the corner,
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circling our wishes in ink, sometimes transferring exact catalog numbers
to our letter to Santa, making sure there was no miscommunication.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Bans.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I miss those days, but I savor the memories. As
soon as Christmas music starts to fill the air, all
those memories come flooding back times of my childhood, times
of my children's childhoods. But I also get excited about
making new memories with the two young children I still
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have at home and the grandchildren I'm now raising. Celebrating
both old and new. Make the Christmas season sparkly, make
it bright. Today's guest on love Someone feels the same
way and she's got a dose of each for us
on our new holiday album Christmas. Some of the old,
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some of the new, but all very sparkly. For nine
Time Grammy nominated in five times GM a Female Vocalist
of the Year, Natalie Grant, this new Christmas album is
a homecoming. She's been wanting to release another Christmas album
since her first, called Believe, that came out twenty years
(02:04):
ago in two thousand and five, and this year, after
signing with her new label, Capital Christian Music Group, She's
done it. Christmas, that came out in October, is full
of nostalgic tracks like I'll Be Home for Christmas and
Joy to the World, taking Natalie back to her childhood
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singing carols around the piano with her family. But the album,
with ten tracks in all, also includes two brand new originals,
one Playful and the other spine Tingly Beautiful. We caught
up with Natalie early last year when she released the
single step by Step with Dolly Pardon, but I needed
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to bring her back to tell us about Christmas. We
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of the cow. Thank you Natalie Grant for being with
us on Love Someone today. It is good to see
you again. You look healthy, you look wonderful.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
It's wonderful, wonderful to see you. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
So we talked a year ago. You had done a
project with the iconic Dolly Pardon and we got to
talk about step by step. And now you're back because
finally we get some Christmas joy from you again. How
many years was it?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Like, been twenty years, twenty years Christmas.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Record, twenty years since your I have done your live.
I've been playing your old Christmas record for twenty years.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Thank you, And it's taken.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
You twenty years to say, hey, that was pretty good.
Maybe I should do that again.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
You know, it's really funny because I have had just
I'm really a.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Lover of longevity.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I love long relationships like you know.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I was in.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Maybe the world's longest record deal twenty three year. One
record deal twenty three years. It's been a wonderful relationship
with Curb Records. I'm so grateful to them. I completed that.
Last record I turned in was the completion of that deal.
But one thing I learned earned that I signed that
deal so long ago that Christmas Records.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Didn't count towards the.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Deal, and so I was like, well, then I'm not
going to make another one. But as soon as I finish,
the first thing I'm doing is a Christmas record.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
So here I am, so here.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Here we are. Yeah. I like long term everything, like.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I do too.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
My podcast producer I've known every second of her life.
She missed out on four years of mine because I
was born first, but I have known her.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I love that you talked about the iconic Dolly parton.
I wish I could just you know, everybody asked if
you had a superpower, what would it be. It would
be teleportation, where you just kind of like teleport somebody
to you or teleport to them.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
That would be just the coolest superpower in the world.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
I wish I could teleport you to Nashville to see
the Dolly musical that's playing here in Nashville.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
It's just spectacular.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
But part of that story talks about her childhood friend.
And we got to go to the Friends of the
Family night, and so Dolly was there because it was
the premiere of her musical. So this musical is, you know,
it starts with little girl Dolly and then it goes
to teenage Dolly, and then it goes to adult Dolly,
and it's just telling her life story. But there's this
friend that she met when she was fifteen years old
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that was woven into this story and the way that
her friend then worked with her as her main confidant.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
And then at the end of the night.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Dolly and her friend came walking out canned, and I
was like.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I'm done.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
I'm done. I'm done. I need a whole box of tissue.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
But that's what we all like. I long for that.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Longevity of relationship. I've only had one manager my whole career,
and you know, a couple of booking agents like I
just believe in long relationship. It's it's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
It is if you if you get it right the
first time, if you don't, like, you know, I had
a problem in that marriage department. I wanted longevity. I
just kept marrying men that weren't really committed to that longevity.
I saw, Natalie, I saw the red flags. I did.
I thought it was a circus.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Right, You're like, oh wait, wait oh those red flags,
but you and your hobby seemed to be doing well. Yes, Tony,
we just celebrated twenty six years. And he's one in
a gazillion. He's just like I think, you know, I
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was talking to a friend who's, you know, in their marriage,
and she's an artist, and you know, I think it
takes a unique man to champion a woman being platformed,
do you know what I mean? I think it takes
a unique man because I think it's in their kind
of makeup to kind of I don't know what it
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is exactly, but sometimes I think it's hard for a
man to champion. I'm a woman in that way, and
God gave me a really good one that's been a
support the whole time and cheerleads and champions and you know,
says I'll sideline if I have to so that you
can soar higher. And that's just He's a gift.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
What a gift, What a gift and your kids. You've
got some in college, right, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
It's the hardest thing I've ever done in my.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Life was letting them go to college. Whoever thinks kids
should grow up, that's a terrible idea.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I know some parents are probably listening to this, going,
are you joking?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I couldn't wait, But I this was really hard, Like
if I could freeze frame. Like there's certain stages of life,
like when the twins were nine and my youngest daughter
was four or five, Like, I loved that stage. But
you don't want to keep them from soaring growing.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Now, you do? You do? You do?
Speaker 2 (10:03):
You're like, you don't.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Want them to go out in this crazy world and
be exposed to all the all the things, all the things. Yeah, no,
I I would very much like to do the bubble wrap.
Yes not. I mean, I'm not a hover mother. I'm
not a helicopter momy. To play and to play sports
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and to fall down and pick themselves up, and I
could care less if they're in the mud up to
their necks or whatever. I'm not I'm not fussy, but
the world is not the world I grew up.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
They keep moving the the marker of what is just moral?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Even what is ok what is okay? They just keep
the marker, just keep getting moved and moved. And this
shouldn't be a right left thing.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Some of this it's not a right left thing. It's
such a wrong right Yeah, it's a wrong right thing.
It's it's exposing children to things that they have no business.
I don't want them to grow up.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
No, and then you lead. It's just all of a
sudden over not.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
I think people don't talk about that part of parenting
enough because now I'm here and I realize that they
don't talk about it because it's so hard.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Like I got all the advice in the world.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
When I was pregnant, when I was when they were little.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
It was like what to expect when you're expecting. Everybody
gives you the books.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
But nobody gives you the book how to keep from
losing your mind when they walk out the door and
into their door.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
It helps you with that.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
And so we just were not prepared to just take
one daughter to Florida, you know, we're in Tennessee and
just kiss her goodbye and then just leave.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Felt felt unnatural.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
It is unnatural.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
It is hard.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
And when you go from you know, call me when
you get home. Make sure you let me know when
you're home. What time are you going to be back? Okay,
I'll see you at the game. I'll pick you up.
And you have that ongoing dialogue seven days a week
to nothing.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
So that your twins went to different universities.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
They went to different universities.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Gracie decided to stay in Nashville. It's a school that
requires her to live on campus, so she moved into there.
But we get to still see her, you know, about
once a week she'll stop by and say, did you
make dinner?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Can I bring my laundry home?
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Laundree She's done all three times in five weeks already.
But but then Bella decided to go to an incredible
university in Florida. They've never been apart. And it was
funny because I think my husband and I were like, oh,
what's the what's the relate? Is it going to do
something to their relationship, like, you know, it's still going
to be close.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
And when we just were talking to.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Both of them, Gracie was here and we had Bella
on FaceTime, they said, oh no, we were just on
FaceTime for like three hours. They said, we FaceTime every day,
like we just studied together. We don't even talk half
the time. It's just we like you to have each
other on the screen.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I went, they're gonna be okay.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
They're gonna be I don't know, they're I'm gonna be okay,
but they're gonna be okay.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
And you've got one left at home right freshman in
high school, so you got a few more years.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Yes, And she was sad for about three or four days,
like kind of sad. And then she realized they left
a bunch of stuff behind in their bathroom and their makeup,
and she's like, I'm living my best life. As I'll
hear somebody in Bella's bedroom and I'm like, it's Sadie.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Then I'll hear somebody in Gracie's bedroom.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
I'm like, it's Sadie. And she just got a pair
of shoes from Bella. She just got a belt from Sadie.
And why you're wearing my shirt?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
You say, yes, yes, Oh, that's kind of the right
of the baby of the family.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I think I was the baby, so I can speak
for experience.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
I did not do this on purpose. Nobody will believe
me in my inner circle. But I did not do
this on purpose. I I thought, you know that I
was done after Zach and TK and Zach has gone
to heaven Tk's twenty six and then I adopted Angel
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and Blessing, and Blessing was the baby. So we treated
Blessing as the baby, and Blessing was the baby. But
God had other plans and as he often does, as
he often does, I mean, Methuselah, ain't got nothing on them.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
But clearly God has actually equipped to you for this
because He keeps bringing them to you and you keep going.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
You know what, Yes, but clearly God trusts you a lot.
He trusts you a lot.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Clearly he knows I need to lean on him a lot.
Without him, I would not make it through a day.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
I don't know how anybody.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
I talk about this all the time, especially in the.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Moments that we're living in.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
You know, it's actually hard hard enough with him, like
life is hard with him.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
It's just possible.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
It doesn't make life easy or perfect or trouble free.
It makes life that you can have peace in the
midst of the difficulty, You can have strength in the
midst of your weakness, because in our weakness, His strength
is made perfect and it doesn't make it easy, it
just makes it possible. I don't know how anybody does
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it with all the Lord.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Truly, I can't make it through a day. I can't
make it through an hour. No, I can't. I can't
see everything going on in the world. I can't see
what's going on in our major cities. I can't see
things that you know are happening and not no cling
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to that face.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Yes, he's our only hope, and he's a hope that's alive,
Thank God.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
And your Christmas album celebrates.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I'm so excited about it.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
I mean, there's the traditional ho ho ho, happy happy,
but I lean into the ones where we actually celebrate
the reason we celebrate.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Yes, you know it's funny we decided to go again
super classic on this record. There's a lot of just
Christmas core memories for me, you know, growing up, I'm
the youngest of five, and now there's fourteen grandkids, and
now there's nine great grandkids. My dad is about to
turn ninety and my mom is eighty five, and all
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of my family is still up in the Northwest in Seattle.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
I'm the only one.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Who left, but I get home for Christmas every year,
and still the tradition of gathering around the piano and
we all sing, and all of my family members can.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Sing like they can.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
We're all in harmony. It's like a little mini choir
in there.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
I know you don't want to exploit or ruin a tradition,
but have you ever thought of bringing a couple of
cameras and sent No?
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Actually yes, Now that my parents are older, I'm.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Like, what a gift for the grandkids?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Yes, yes, because you know it's not going to be forever,
but to hear them and they all and then it
always turns into a little church service at the end,
you know, and it's just it's really special. So there
was some of those core songs for me. Some I
did on my first record twenty years ago, but some
were still singing them every Christmas.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
And that's Hark the Herald Angels.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Sing and Silent Night and Winter Wonderland and I'll be
Home for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
So there's just all classics, eight classics and two originals.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
You know that we wanted to go super classics, so
we went to the.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Old RCA building here in Nashville.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
It's kind of like a historic original studio here. We
brought the Nashville Symphony and real strings and went to
our friends in LA who could give us that kind
of nostalgic sounding background singers, and all of them gathered
around one mic, and so there's just some really beautiful nostalgic.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Moments on it.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
One of my favorite moments is Silent Night. It's actually acapella,
but the arrangement like is so stunning, and I did
it with Bart from mercy Me and he has for me.
One of my favorite songs ever written is a mercy
Me song called Word of God Speak. And I don't
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know if you ever heard that song, but if you
have it, you've got to.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
It's incredible.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
There's something about his voice. It's effortless. He doesn't try.
He just kind of when he sings. I feel peace
in his voice, you know. And so it just was
a real dream to get to do that song with him.
And at the end of the song, it's this really
powerful just arrangement and we just kind of flipped the script.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
On the line.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Instead of saying sleep in Heavenly Peace, which was aligned
to the baby, we said, Jesus Lord at thy birth, Now.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
We can sleep in heavenly peace.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
And it's just when you hear it, it just kind
of as you go, oh, that's actually it's.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
What we were just talking about.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Because of Jesus, in the midst of everything that's happening,
we we actually can sleep in peace because.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
We have the hope of the world. And I love
the whole record so much. I can't wait for you
to hear it.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
There's a little gospel in there always because at my
core that's what I really love.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
So the only the only one they let us have,
the sneak peak of which is fun. Is your original
Christmas looks good on you?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Oh okay, that okay, that's super fun because this is
the story. So my husband, which is like the nicest
guy on the planet truly, and it's and it's what
you see is what you get. It's real you and
so kind, so nice. He hates our flocked Christmas tree.
Like when I say hates, it actually brings out this rage,
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this little rage.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Yeah yeah, because.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
It's always when he has to set it up, he
gets covered from head to toe and all that white
stuff and he's like, this stuff should.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Even be in our house. Shot, we shouldn't be breathing it.
It's got this toading.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I'm sure it's deadly.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
So he hates that thing, but he does it because
he knows I love that white flocked Christmas tree. And
we have a friend, Sarah Reeves, who would remember every year,
I'll put a little story up on Instagram of you know,
here's Ebenezer Scrooge one time of year trying to put
up our flocked Christmas tree and it brings out the
worst in him. And she sent us this idea and
it says, you take away my winter blues. Nah, you
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ain't no Ebenezer Scrooge. Oh what a wonder what a you?
Christmas looks good on you. And it's such a clever
idea that we wrote the whole song together and it's
really cute.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Oh, now that is fine, and that is really cute.
You know, my dad was so gifted in so many areas,
but especially with his hands. And between Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas,
our garage became Santa's workshop. I love that it was
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off limits. You were not allowed to go out without
knocking first because he was working on something magical, something wonderful.
He made a whole set of doll furniture, not little,
but like you know, for my sister, the stove and
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refrigerator and all by hand crafted the whole thing, and
it was beautiful. And then every year he would make
something new for his mother in law, my grandma, my
mom's mom, for her kitchen, and her whole kitchen like
can mister set. He went and secretly measured her canister set,
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and then he built these wooden brushes.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
That's so thoughtful and intentional.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
He loved to make things by hand, so that desire
was handed off to us kids. I have the passion
to create, I just don't have the ability to follow through.
So I've got five hundred projects that I started fifteen
Christmases ago, I picked in a box someplace that I'm
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never going to get finished. I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Well, I don't even have the artistic bone in my
body to even get that far. The only artistic bone,
creative bone I have is singing and songwriting.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
I don't have anything.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I think you've done. Okay there, I think you've done
quite well there.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Well, thank you. What a core memory with your dad.
That's beautiful. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Yeah, Christmas was always special and in my household because
I have so many kids and so many grandkids, and
we try to, you know, get together. It's hard because
you know, my adult children have their own lives and
their own kids and their own grandkids now, so it's
very hard.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yes, we get it. We're going through that with my sister.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
My older sister has nine grandkids and so now she's like, well,
now we have our own family Christmas, we have our
own traditions, we have our own thing that we're doing.
So then it's like, oh wait, okay, so they have
to and it's hard to juggle all that and to
feel like, well, but we still want to go be
a part of what's going on with like this family.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
But yeah, I tell all my children when they start,
you know, thinking about dating or partnering or hooking up
with somebody, Can you find somebody that doesn't have a
very good family, you know that they're not going to
want to be.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Going to have to stay with them.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Yeah, because I don't want to share. I don't want
to share.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
I said the same thing, Like my in laws are
in Canada and we just don't get there very often,
and God bless them, I love them.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
But it's made it a lot easier.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Yeah, yeah, who wants to share? No, you don't want
to no, No, I don't want.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
My kids to grow up and I don't want to
share them with anybody.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
But I've had that. I have a completely healthy jest.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
He would be, I can't wait till till you decide
to film the whole family. And I know you again,
I'm pushing for exploitation here.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
But you're inspiring because it's a gift for generations.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
And if you wanted to share with your friend Elilah,
I'd be okay with that. Yeah, I'd be okay with that.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Oh what a joy to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
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Speaker 2 (26:24):
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Speaker 3 (26:26):
That's why you're so beloved and why you're so trusted by.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
So many people. But it's every time I.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Hear you talk, and I hear you talk about no,
you've got you got new kids.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
I feel like every time.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
I talk to you, and and it's people trust you
because God trusts you. You're doing well and you're going
to end well. I say, because you keep saying yes.
God's not looking for perfect, He's looking.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
For willing and you know what, Natalie, I've I think
that that is in this stage of my life, my
biggest message to people is just say yes.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Just say yes.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Just say yes when God puts an opportunity before you,
instead of coming up with all the reasons you can't.
Let's listen. There's always a reason we can't. There's so
many reasons we can't. But if you will just take
that list of reasons and set it aside, yes and say,
all I'm looking at are the reasons I want to
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say no. But God, Yes, I will do what you
ask me to do. I will go where you asked
me to go. I will serve where you asked me
to serve. I will give what you asked me to
give without clinging to it. Yes. Yes, if you just
say yes, everything falls into place.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
It does because God's actually looking for our yes. And
what you're doing when you don't say yes, is you're
not actually giving God the opportunity to be God to
actually show you what he can do with your yes.
So you've got all these reasons, but then when you
give your yes, I'm telling you, it unlocks something because
God begins to pour out stuff for.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
You that the few little loaves and fishes. Scientifically, there's
no way to feed five thousand plus. So there were
five thousand men. That means there was at least five
thousand women and at least ten thousand children. Yep, and
a couple of fishes and loaves multiplied to feed them
and have twelve baskets of scraps left. Oly God, So
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when I say yes and I bring the fishes and loaves,
he always blows my mind with how it's multiplied.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
So good, so beautiful to say yes, say yes, well,
your yes is an inspiration to us. All it is.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Thank you. I'm going to go be inspired and put
on some more Christmas music and have a cup of
cinnamon tea.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Thank you so much. It's always a delight to speak
with you. Always, always, always.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
How can folks find you? Because I know you're going
to be performing, and I know you're touring and all.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
That sad it out on Christmas tour and you can
go to just Natalie Grant dot com and it's just
my any social media, it's just Natalie Grant.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Christmas looks good on you.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Ah, Christmas looks good on you.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Thank you, Darlin.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Christmas is definitely an album you'll need to add to
your holiday playlist. It's got that classic Christmas record feeling
with real strings, real horns, and is even available on vinyl.
It's already out, so don't wait another minute. Natalie is
a busy, busy woman, having just wrapped up a fall
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tour with Mercy Me and began the tenth year of
the Celebrate Christmas Tour with Grammy nominated and dev Award
winner Danny Gokei. The beloved annual tradition returns with a
brand new show from top to bottom, packed with reimagined
holiday favorites and powerful worship filled moments. It's everything you
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love about Christmas and completely refreshed for twenty twenty five.
The collaborative concert is the perfect holiday outing for your
entire family. Make it a Christmas tradition, celebrating the reason
for the season. Keep up with Natalie, order her new album,
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and find out where she'll be on tour at Natalie
Grant dot com. Tis the season. I encourage you all
to make merry memories. Do some crafts, bake some cookies,
do as many good deeds as humanly possible. Add extra
marshmallows and a candy cane to your hot coco. Play
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Christmas music morning, noon and night, and don't hold back
when you sing those old familiar carols. Christmas comes but
once a year. Let us rejoice.
Hello, my friend. Welcome, Welcome to love Someone with Delilah,
I have a question, where in the world is fall gone?
Where it flew by faster than the leaves could jump
off their branches and dance fluttering to the ground. It's
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all hands on deck now, getting ready for the big
day Hanukkah and Christmas. Just around the corner. Bardemy still
expects the Sears Catalog wishbook to arrive in the mail.
Those were the days my siblings and I would lay
on the floor, pour over the pages, turning down the corner,
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circling our wishes in ink, sometimes transferring exact catalog numbers
to our letter to Santa, making sure there was no miscommunication.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Bans.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I miss those days, but I savor the memories. As
soon as Christmas music starts to fill the air, all
those memories come flooding back times of my childhood, times
of my children's childhoods. But I also get excited about
making new memories with the two young children I still
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have at home and the grandchildren I'm now raising. Celebrating
both old and new. Make the Christmas season sparkly, make
it bright. Today's guest on love Someone feels the same
way and she's got a dose of each for us
on our new holiday album Christmas. Some of the old,
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some of the new, but all very sparkly. For nine
Time Grammy nominated in five times GM a Female Vocalist
of the Year, Natalie Grant, this new Christmas album is
a homecoming. She's been wanting to release another Christmas album
since her first, called Believe, that came out twenty years
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ago in two thousand and five, and this year, after
signing with her new label, Capital Christian Music Group, She's
done it. Christmas, that came out in October, is full
of nostalgic tracks like I'll Be Home for Christmas and
Joy to the World, taking Natalie back to her childhood
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singing carols around the piano with her family. But the album,
with ten tracks in all, also includes two brand new originals,
one Playful and the other spine Tingly Beautiful. We caught
up with Natalie early last year when she released the
single step by Step with Dolly Pardon, but I needed
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to bring her back to tell us about Christmas. We
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of the cow. Thank you Natalie Grant for being with
us on Love Someone today. It is good to see
you again. You look healthy, you look wonderful.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
It's wonderful, wonderful to see you. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
So we talked a year ago. You had done a
project with the iconic Dolly Pardon and we got to
talk about step by step. And now you're back because
finally we get some Christmas joy from you again. How
many years was it?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Like, been twenty years, twenty years Christmas.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Record, twenty years since your I have done your live.
I've been playing your old Christmas record for twenty years.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Thank you, And it's taken.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
You twenty years to say, hey, that was pretty good.
Maybe I should do that again.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
You know, it's really funny because I have had just
I'm really a.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Lover of longevity.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I love long relationships like you know.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I was in.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Maybe the world's longest record deal twenty three year. One
record deal twenty three years. It's been a wonderful relationship
with Curb Records. I'm so grateful to them. I completed that.
Last record I turned in was the completion of that deal.
But one thing I learned earned that I signed that
deal so long ago that Christmas Records.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Didn't count towards the.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Deal, and so I was like, well, then I'm not
going to make another one. But as soon as I finish,
the first thing I'm doing is a Christmas record.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
So here I am, so here.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Here we are. Yeah. I like long term everything, like.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I do too.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
My podcast producer I've known every second of her life.
She missed out on four years of mine because I
was born first, but I have known her.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I love that you talked about the iconic Dolly parton.
I wish I could just you know, everybody asked if
you had a superpower, what would it be. It would
be teleportation, where you just kind of like teleport somebody
to you or teleport to them.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
That would be just the coolest superpower in the world.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
I wish I could teleport you to Nashville to see
the Dolly musical that's playing here in Nashville.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
It's just spectacular.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
But part of that story talks about her childhood friend.
And we got to go to the Friends of the
Family night, and so Dolly was there because it was
the premiere of her musical. So this musical is, you know,
it starts with little girl Dolly and then it goes
to teenage Dolly, and then it goes to adult Dolly,
and it's just telling her life story. But there's this
friend that she met when she was fifteen years old
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that was woven into this story and the way that
her friend then worked with her as her main confidant.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
And then at the end of the night.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Dolly and her friend came walking out canned, and I
was like.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I'm done.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
I'm done. I'm done. I need a whole box of tissue.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
But that's what we all like. I long for that.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Longevity of relationship. I've only had one manager my whole career,
and you know, a couple of booking agents like I
just believe in long relationship. It's it's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
It is if you if you get it right the
first time, if you don't, like, you know, I had
a problem in that marriage department. I wanted longevity. I
just kept marrying men that weren't really committed to that longevity.
I saw, Natalie, I saw the red flags. I did.
I thought it was a circus.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Right, You're like, oh wait, wait oh those red flags,
but you and your hobby seemed to be doing well. Yes, Tony,
we just celebrated twenty six years. And he's one in
a gazillion. He's just like I think, you know, I
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was talking to a friend who's, you know, in their marriage,
and she's an artist, and you know, I think it
takes a unique man to champion a woman being platformed,
do you know what I mean? I think it takes
a unique man because I think it's in their kind
of makeup to kind of I don't know what it
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is exactly, but sometimes I think it's hard for a
man to champion. I'm a woman in that way, and
God gave me a really good one that's been a
support the whole time and cheerleads and champions and you know,
says I'll sideline if I have to so that you
can soar higher. And that's just He's a gift.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
What a gift, What a gift and your kids. You've
got some in college, right, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
It's the hardest thing I've ever done in my.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Life was letting them go to college. Whoever thinks kids
should grow up, that's a terrible idea.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I know some parents are probably listening to this, going,
are you joking?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I couldn't wait, But I this was really hard, Like
if I could freeze frame. Like there's certain stages of life,
like when the twins were nine and my youngest daughter
was four or five, Like, I loved that stage. But
you don't want to keep them from soaring growing.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Now, you do? You do? You do?
Speaker 2 (10:03):
You're like, you don't.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Want them to go out in this crazy world and
be exposed to all the all the things, all the things. Yeah, no,
I I would very much like to do the bubble wrap.
Yes not. I mean, I'm not a hover mother. I'm
not a helicopter momy. To play and to play sports
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and to fall down and pick themselves up, and I
could care less if they're in the mud up to
their necks or whatever. I'm not I'm not fussy, but
the world is not the world I grew up.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
They keep moving the the marker of what is just moral?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Even what is ok what is okay? They just keep
the marker, just keep getting moved and moved. And this
shouldn't be a right left thing.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Some of this it's not a right left thing. It's
such a wrong right Yeah, it's a wrong right thing.
It's it's exposing children to things that they have no business.
I don't want them to grow up.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
No, and then you lead. It's just all of a
sudden over not.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
I think people don't talk about that part of parenting
enough because now I'm here and I realize that they
don't talk about it because it's so hard.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Like I got all the advice in the world.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
When I was pregnant, when I was when they were little.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
It was like what to expect when you're expecting. Everybody
gives you the books.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
But nobody gives you the book how to keep from
losing your mind when they walk out the door and
into their door.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
It helps you with that.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
And so we just were not prepared to just take
one daughter to Florida, you know, we're in Tennessee and
just kiss her goodbye and then just leave.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Felt felt unnatural.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
It is unnatural.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
It is hard.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
And when you go from you know, call me when
you get home. Make sure you let me know when
you're home. What time are you going to be back? Okay,
I'll see you at the game. I'll pick you up.
And you have that ongoing dialogue seven days a week
to nothing.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
So that your twins went to different universities.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
They went to different universities.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Gracie decided to stay in Nashville. It's a school that
requires her to live on campus, so she moved into there.
But we get to still see her, you know, about
once a week she'll stop by and say, did you
make dinner?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Can I bring my laundry home?
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Laundree She's done all three times in five weeks already.
But but then Bella decided to go to an incredible
university in Florida. They've never been apart. And it was
funny because I think my husband and I were like, oh,
what's the what's the relate? Is it going to do
something to their relationship, like, you know, it's still going
to be close.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
And when we just were talking to.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Both of them, Gracie was here and we had Bella
on FaceTime, they said, oh no, we were just on
FaceTime for like three hours. They said, we FaceTime every day,
like we just studied together. We don't even talk half
the time. It's just we like you to have each
other on the screen.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I went, they're gonna be okay.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
They're gonna be I don't know, they're I'm gonna be okay,
but they're gonna be okay.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
And you've got one left at home right freshman in
high school, so you got a few more years.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Yes, And she was sad for about three or four days,
like kind of sad. And then she realized they left
a bunch of stuff behind in their bathroom and their makeup,
and she's like, I'm living my best life. As I'll
hear somebody in Bella's bedroom and I'm like, it's Sadie.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Then I'll hear somebody in Gracie's bedroom.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
I'm like, it's Sadie. And she just got a pair
of shoes from Bella. She just got a belt from Sadie.
And why you're wearing my shirt?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
You say, yes, yes, Oh, that's kind of the right
of the baby of the family.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I think I was the baby, so I can speak
for experience.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
I did not do this on purpose. Nobody will believe
me in my inner circle. But I did not do
this on purpose. I I thought, you know that I
was done after Zach and TK and Zach has gone
to heaven Tk's twenty six and then I adopted Angel
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and Blessing, and Blessing was the baby. So we treated
Blessing as the baby, and Blessing was the baby. But
God had other plans and as he often does, as
he often does, I mean, Methuselah, ain't got nothing on them.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
But clearly God has actually equipped to you for this
because He keeps bringing them to you and you keep going.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
You know what, Yes, but clearly God trusts you a lot.
He trusts you a lot.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Clearly he knows I need to lean on him a lot.
Without him, I would not make it through a day.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
I don't know how anybody.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
I talk about this all the time, especially in the.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Moments that we're living in.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
You know, it's actually hard hard enough with him, like
life is hard with him.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
It's just possible.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
It doesn't make life easy or perfect or trouble free.
It makes life that you can have peace in the
midst of the difficulty, You can have strength in the
midst of your weakness, because in our weakness, His strength
is made perfect and it doesn't make it easy, it
just makes it possible. I don't know how anybody does
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it with all the Lord.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Truly, I can't make it through a day. I can't
make it through an hour. No, I can't. I can't
see everything going on in the world. I can't see
what's going on in our major cities. I can't see
things that you know are happening and not no cling
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to that face.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Yes, he's our only hope, and he's a hope that's alive,
Thank God.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
And your Christmas album celebrates.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I'm so excited about it.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
I mean, there's the traditional ho ho ho, happy happy,
but I lean into the ones where we actually celebrate
the reason we celebrate.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Yes, you know it's funny we decided to go again
super classic on this record. There's a lot of just
Christmas core memories for me, you know, growing up, I'm
the youngest of five, and now there's fourteen grandkids, and
now there's nine great grandkids. My dad is about to
turn ninety and my mom is eighty five, and all
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of my family is still up in the Northwest in Seattle.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
I'm the only one.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Who left, but I get home for Christmas every year,
and still the tradition of gathering around the piano and
we all sing, and all of my family members can.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Sing like they can.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
We're all in harmony. It's like a little mini choir
in there.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
I know you don't want to exploit or ruin a tradition,
but have you ever thought of bringing a couple of
cameras and sent No?
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Actually yes, Now that my parents are older, I'm.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Like, what a gift for the grandkids?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Yes, yes, because you know it's not going to be forever,
but to hear them and they all and then it
always turns into a little church service at the end,
you know, and it's just it's really special. So there
was some of those core songs for me. Some I
did on my first record twenty years ago, but some
were still singing them every Christmas.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
And that's Hark the Herald Angels.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Sing and Silent Night and Winter Wonderland and I'll be
Home for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
So there's just all classics, eight classics and two originals.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
You know that we wanted to go super classics, so
we went to the.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Old RCA building here in Nashville.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
It's kind of like a historic original studio here. We
brought the Nashville Symphony and real strings and went to
our friends in LA who could give us that kind
of nostalgic sounding background singers, and all of them gathered
around one mic, and so there's just some really beautiful nostalgic.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Moments on it.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
One of my favorite moments is Silent Night. It's actually acapella,
but the arrangement like is so stunning, and I did
it with Bart from mercy Me and he has for me.
One of my favorite songs ever written is a mercy
Me song called Word of God Speak. And I don't
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know if you ever heard that song, but if you
have it, you've got to.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
It's incredible.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
There's something about his voice. It's effortless. He doesn't try.
He just kind of when he sings. I feel peace
in his voice, you know. And so it just was
a real dream to get to do that song with him.
And at the end of the song, it's this really
powerful just arrangement and we just kind of flipped the script.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
On the line.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Instead of saying sleep in Heavenly Peace, which was aligned
to the baby, we said, Jesus Lord at thy birth, Now.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
We can sleep in heavenly peace.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
And it's just when you hear it, it just kind
of as you go, oh, that's actually it's.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
What we were just talking about.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Because of Jesus, in the midst of everything that's happening,
we we actually can sleep in peace because.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
We have the hope of the world. And I love
the whole record so much. I can't wait for you
to hear it.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
There's a little gospel in there always because at my
core that's what I really love.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
So the only the only one they let us have,
the sneak peak of which is fun. Is your original
Christmas looks good on you?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Oh okay, that okay, that's super fun because this is
the story. So my husband, which is like the nicest
guy on the planet truly, and it's and it's what
you see is what you get. It's real you and
so kind, so nice. He hates our flocked Christmas tree.
Like when I say hates, it actually brings out this rage,
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this little rage.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Yeah yeah, because.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
It's always when he has to set it up, he
gets covered from head to toe and all that white
stuff and he's like, this stuff should.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Even be in our house. Shot, we shouldn't be breathing it.
It's got this toading.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I'm sure it's deadly.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
So he hates that thing, but he does it because
he knows I love that white flocked Christmas tree. And
we have a friend, Sarah Reeves, who would remember every year,
I'll put a little story up on Instagram of you know,
here's Ebenezer Scrooge one time of year trying to put
up our flocked Christmas tree and it brings out the
worst in him. And she sent us this idea and
it says, you take away my winter blues. Nah, you
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ain't no Ebenezer Scrooge. Oh what a wonder what a you?
Christmas looks good on you. And it's such a clever
idea that we wrote the whole song together and it's
really cute.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Oh, now that is fine, and that is really cute.
You know, my dad was so gifted in so many areas,
but especially with his hands. And between Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas,
our garage became Santa's workshop. I love that it was
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off limits. You were not allowed to go out without
knocking first because he was working on something magical, something wonderful.
He made a whole set of doll furniture, not little,
but like you know, for my sister, the stove and
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refrigerator and all by hand crafted the whole thing, and
it was beautiful. And then every year he would make
something new for his mother in law, my grandma, my
mom's mom, for her kitchen, and her whole kitchen like
can mister set. He went and secretly measured her canister set,
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and then he built these wooden brushes.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
That's so thoughtful and intentional.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
He loved to make things by hand, so that desire
was handed off to us kids. I have the passion
to create, I just don't have the ability to follow through.
So I've got five hundred projects that I started fifteen
Christmases ago, I picked in a box someplace that I'm
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never going to get finished. I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Well, I don't even have the artistic bone in my
body to even get that far. The only artistic bone,
creative bone I have is singing and songwriting.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
I don't have anything.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I think you've done. Okay there, I think you've done
quite well there.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Well, thank you. What a core memory with your dad.
That's beautiful. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Yeah, Christmas was always special and in my household because
I have so many kids and so many grandkids, and
we try to, you know, get together. It's hard because
you know, my adult children have their own lives and
their own kids and their own grandkids now, so it's
very hard.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yes, we get it. We're going through that with my sister.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
My older sister has nine grandkids and so now she's like, well,
now we have our own family Christmas, we have our
own traditions, we have our own thing that we're doing.
So then it's like, oh wait, okay, so they have
to and it's hard to juggle all that and to
feel like, well, but we still want to go be
a part of what's going on with like this family.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
But yeah, I tell all my children when they start,
you know, thinking about dating or partnering or hooking up
with somebody, Can you find somebody that doesn't have a
very good family, you know that they're not going to
want to be.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Going to have to stay with them.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Yeah, because I don't want to share. I don't want
to share.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
I said the same thing, Like my in laws are
in Canada and we just don't get there very often,
and God bless them, I love them.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
But it's made it a lot easier.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Yeah, yeah, who wants to share? No, you don't want
to no, No, I don't want.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
My kids to grow up and I don't want to
share them with anybody.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
But I've had that. I have a completely healthy jest.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
He would be, I can't wait till till you decide
to film the whole family. And I know you again,
I'm pushing for exploitation here.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
But you're inspiring because it's a gift for generations.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
And if you wanted to share with your friend Elilah,
I'd be okay with that. Yeah, I'd be okay with that.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Oh what a joy to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Oh my goodness, Natalie Grant is gifting us some precious
time today to talk about her new album. Christmas tis
the season for shopping and sipping, and there's nothing better
than stealing a moment to put your feed up and
enjoy a cup of Bigelow tea during the hustle and
(25:05):
bustle of your busy life. Bigelow has the perfect blend
for every me moment I can carve out. Constant comment
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(25:31):
or perhaps it's an eggnog kind of day. Salted caramel
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t e a dot com. Thank you, Thank you for
this time together.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
You know everybody knows.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
That's why you're so beloved and why you're so trusted by.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
So many people. But it's every time I.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Hear you talk, and I hear you talk about no,
you've got you got new kids.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
I feel like every time.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
I talk to you, and and it's people trust you
because God trusts you. You're doing well and you're going
to end well. I say, because you keep saying yes.
God's not looking for perfect, He's looking.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
For willing and you know what, Natalie, I've I think
that that is in this stage of my life, my
biggest message to people is just say yes.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Just say yes.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Just say yes when God puts an opportunity before you,
instead of coming up with all the reasons you can't.
Let's listen. There's always a reason we can't. There's so
many reasons we can't. But if you will just take
that list of reasons and set it aside, yes and say,
all I'm looking at are the reasons I want to
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say no. But God, Yes, I will do what you
ask me to do. I will go where you asked
me to go. I will serve where you asked me
to serve. I will give what you asked me to
give without clinging to it. Yes. Yes, if you just
say yes, everything falls into place.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
It does because God's actually looking for our yes. And
what you're doing when you don't say yes, is you're
not actually giving God the opportunity to be God to
actually show you what he can do with your yes.
So you've got all these reasons, but then when you
give your yes, I'm telling you, it unlocks something because
God begins to pour out stuff for.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
You that the few little loaves and fishes. Scientifically, there's
no way to feed five thousand plus. So there were
five thousand men. That means there was at least five
thousand women and at least ten thousand children. Yep, and
a couple of fishes and loaves multiplied to feed them
and have twelve baskets of scraps left. Oly God, So
(28:23):
when I say yes and I bring the fishes and loaves,
he always blows my mind with how it's multiplied.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
So good, so beautiful to say yes, say yes, well,
your yes is an inspiration to us. All it is.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Thank you. I'm going to go be inspired and put
on some more Christmas music and have a cup of
cinnamon tea.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Thank you so much. It's always a delight to speak
with you. Always, always, always.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
How can folks find you? Because I know you're going
to be performing, and I know you're touring and all.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
That sad it out on Christmas tour and you can
go to just Natalie Grant dot com and it's just
my any social media, it's just Natalie Grant.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Christmas looks good on you.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Ah, Christmas looks good on you.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Thank you, Darlin.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Christmas is definitely an album you'll need to add to
your holiday playlist. It's got that classic Christmas record feeling
with real strings, real horns, and is even available on vinyl.
It's already out, so don't wait another minute. Natalie is
a busy, busy woman, having just wrapped up a fall
(29:37):
tour with Mercy Me and began the tenth year of
the Celebrate Christmas Tour with Grammy nominated and dev Award
winner Danny Gokei. The beloved annual tradition returns with a
brand new show from top to bottom, packed with reimagined
holiday favorites and powerful worship filled moments. It's everything you
(30:03):
love about Christmas and completely refreshed for twenty twenty five.
The collaborative concert is the perfect holiday outing for your
entire family. Make it a Christmas tradition, celebrating the reason
for the season. Keep up with Natalie, order her new album,
(30:24):
and find out where she'll be on tour at Natalie
Grant dot com. Tis the season. I encourage you all
to make merry memories. Do some crafts, bake some cookies,
do as many good deeds as humanly possible. Add extra
marshmallows and a candy cane to your hot coco. Play
(30:46):
Christmas music morning, noon and night, and don't hold back
when you sing those old familiar carols. Christmas comes but
once a year. Let us rejoice.
Host
Delilah
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