I wrote a song I'm going to be doing at NOMAD this weekend. About a week after I'd written it, I was performing with friends at an event for the mentally challenged. It was very informal, and we were doing mostly background music. I'd started to sing the song, and the family of a young man in a wheel chair brought him over to the table we were all sitting at to hear and see better. They might have brought him over no matter what the song or tune was, but the timing got to me, and I almost didn't make it through the song. He was one of the reasons I'd written it.

I guess aside from receiving praise from people I respect, I'd have to say it's an incredible feeling for me as a new song leader to start a song and have it come alive when folks hit the chorus with everything they've got. Simple, I know, but it's the level I'm at right now.