Shortly after moving to Nashville in 1993, I discovered an artist named Susan Ashton, and I fell in love with her song choices and her amazing and expressive voice.  I think the first album I heard was Susan Ashton and then at church there, I heard an incredible song called “Started As A Whisper,” and I began to dig deeper in her catalog.

As life would have it, several years later, I met a really great guy named Billy Simon, to whom I was introduced by my very good friend Scott Morris, and I learned over time that he had co-written “Started As A Whisper” with Wayne Kirkpatrick.  Billy also co-wrote “Where There Is Faith,” a great song recorded by 4HIM back in the day.

So go the serendipitous moments of my life.

Years later, I moved back to Texas, and after 3 years in East Texas, I moved to Mesquite after securing a job as a bilingual kindergarten teacher in MISD at a great school called Gray Elementary.

While in Mesquite, I began visiting churches all around, and the one where I decided to attend and serve regularly was Firewheel Bible Fellowship in Garland.  And wouldn’t you know it?  Another connection related to the above.  J.D. Cunningham, who at one time had been married to Susan Ashton, was the worship leader at FWBF.  We visited from time to time, and we learned we had even more folks in common — that’s what happens in Nashville — and eventually, he and his family moved on, accepting a similar position at a church out West.

All of that to say that we sang “Revelation Song” a few weeks ago in church, and I remembered how much it speaks to me, so I began to search to see if I could find a recorded version that I liked.

Boy, did I.  After several years of hiatus and regrouping and other life changes, Susan Ashton is apparently recording again.  And she performs here a great version of “Revelation Song.”  The song was written by Jennie Lee Riddle, and here is her story behind the song.  And I have been out of touch just long enough not to know that it won the 2010 Dove Award for Best Worship Song.

Listen to it loud and in reverence.