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Open in Spotify. I made y’all a lovely little mix to start your summer off right! Ideally you’d be driving through the Blue Ridge Mountains with your windows down while listening to this, but the tunes sound sweet wherever you may be. Enjoy!

Open in Spotify.

I made y’all a lovely little mix to start your summer off right! Ideally you’d be driving through the Blue Ridge Mountains with your windows down while listening to this, but the tunes sound sweet wherever you may be. Enjoy!

I’ve been worryin’ that my time is a little unclear.
I’ve been worryin’ that I’m losing the ones I hold dear.
I’ve been worryin’ that we all live our lives in the confines of fear. 

Falling from high places, falling through lost spaces,
Now that we’re lonely, now that there’s nowhere to go.
Watching from both sides, these clock towers burning up,
I lost my time here, I lost my patience with it all.
We lost faith, in the arms of love.
Where you been hiding lately?
Where you been hiding from the news?
Because we’ve been fighting lately, 
We’ve been fighting with the wolves.

The sweetest surrender of winter
She put up her flag, it is waving
The thunder of summer is rumbling in
And I haven’t seen you in days
And my, how that feeling has changed
I have been homesick for you since we met
I have been homesick for you

Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders
Let me walk upon the waters
Wherever You would call me
Take me deeper than my feet could ever wander
And my faith will be made stronger
In the presence of my Savior

I’m going to make a big claim here— a really big claim. I think that Jonathan and Melissa’s music has made me feel closer to the Father than just about anything else in my life. I struggle to think of a more intimate moment than sitting alone on my bed, completely lost in the sounds of their worship becoming my worship. There are no rules. Tears flow freely. My body becomes weightless. My heart lifts up out of my chest and I swear Jesus is right beside me.

If you’ve had a bad day, sit back and realize that you are furiously loved. Listen to this song. Get lost for a little while. It’s all going to be okay. 

Hello Promised Land, we’ve waited for so long to see what we’ve believed in, to sing this Promised Land song

Explode my soul, explode with praise, what He promised is what He gave

I feel the wind in my lungs and hope in my veins, I’m seeing with new eyes, I’m seeing You again

Hello Promised Land, I’ve waited for so long to see what I believed in, just to sing this song

Explode my soul, explode with praise, what He promised is what He gave

Let it ring in our hearts, let it ring in my heart, let the hope of the Promised Land, let it ring in my heart, let it ring in our hearts

You’re faithful and I’m thankful 

Goodbye desert, hello Promised Land

I’m shaking off the dust of hopeless and I’m starting to believe again

(Source: Spotify)

Standing on the shore of decision, looking into the face of adventure, desiring to abandon all I know, what pushes me is rooted somewhere in between misunderstanding and knowing. Knowing that what I want to understand is not within my reach, so I ponder my escape, not knowing what lies ahead. Adventure in theory is full of excitement and bleeds with passion for life. But adventure in reality is full of breathless moments, silent nights, and wounds that leave scars and memories on a heart. Can I go the distance? Can I give all my mind to get what the Messenger is saying? Can I surrender my knowing? Will I survive the humility of ignorance to obtain the treasure that earthly gold cannot buy? Will I ask the question of honesty even if the answer convicts my soul and sends me to the land of repentance?

All of these thoughts flood my mind.

As I stand on the shore of choosing, in the distance of my wandering, I see with clear eyes a flock of wild, beautiful birds, swooping clearly in my direction, as if they see me and they are coming for me. And how strange it is that their eyes are full of clarity and the melody of their flapping winds sings out—

We are coming for you.

My song is waking up. Wake up the songbirds. We want to hear your melodies. Songbirds, wake up and start singing. You’re not in your cage anymore, bound by your shame anymore. The walls that held you in prison, the gate is flung wide open. Start singing, cageless birds. 

Oh these miles that have
Torn us apart
My new-found faith
And my broken heart

Windows are rolled down
Sun is rising high
Windows are rolled down
Feel that wind rushing by

Enjoy this nighttime playlist full of calm, dreamy, folky tunes to sing your tender little heart right on to sleep.  Open in Spotify.

Enjoy this nighttime playlist full of calm, dreamy, folky tunes to sing your tender little heart right on to sleep. 

Open in Spotify.

Near the town where we were living came a loud and joyous sound as the earth and all her beauty picked us up from off the ground. Carried far across the mountain to a kingdom never bound, we will live like this forever. I will love you, I will love you, I will love you. 

How I’d love to steer you straight into the water while those daunting clouds above begin to pour. And when we’re found, we’ll kiss that ground, and roll around on that lovers’ floor.

Tennessee’s a brother to my sister Carolina where they’re gonna bury me.

What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?

The Head and the Heart

I’m brokenhearted and I think the world should all be brokenhearted too. Y’all should be brokenhearted too.

The shingles, man, they’re shakin’
The back door’s burnin’ through
This old house, she’s quite the keeper
Quite the keeper of you