Lord Sycamore: Understory
Passing Through (Psalm 84): Story Under the Song
Sure, we could move to a new building, but what would stop the roof from caving in there?
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Lord Sycamore: Understory
- Jun 9, 2020
- 2 min
Passing Through (Psalm 84): Lyrics
How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Armies! My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for
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Lord Sycamore: Understory
- Jun 6, 2020
- 5 min
(Reprise) Aching to Be Had: Story Under the Song
In "(Reprise) Aching to Be Had," the Singer is feeling a longing that he's been taught to name: it's a longing for God as his true home.
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Lord Sycamore: Understory
- May 30, 2020
- 1 min
(Reprise) Aching to Be Had: Lyrics
But my heart is full of longing, longing that you taught me to name.
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Lord Sycamore: Understory
- May 29, 2020
- 12 min
New Father: Story Under the Song
"New Father" tells the story of how becoming a father taught me to know God as my Father.
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Lord Sycamore: Understory
- May 29, 2020
- 2 min
New Father: Lyrics
I had so many dreams now gone from my life
Like the hair of a dog that is shedding
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Lord Sycamore: Understory
- May 24, 2020
- 9 min
Lilac Orchestra: Story Under the Song
Lilac Orchestra is a song sung to and from Jesus about the work of legacy-leaving-- of fruitfulness-- that he calls us to when he saves us.
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Lord Sycamore: Understory
- May 23, 2020
- 3 min
Lilac Orchestra: Lyrics
I want to help you plant
a hundred lilacs in our front yard. The love I give to you
will make them bloom.
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Lord Sycamore: Understory
- Apr 27, 2020
- 4 min
Wonderlost: Story Under the Song
But day-to-day, as I taught my students and raised my son, I'd come to think of myself as the one in charge. I had, in a phrase, "grown up."
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Lord Sycamore: Understory
- Apr 26, 2020
- 1 min
Wonderlost: Lyrics
Have you lost your wonder? If so, do you wonder how it happened to you?
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Lord Sycamore: Understory
- Apr 23, 2020
- 5 min
My Hiding Place (Psalm 32): Story Under the Song
I realized that Psalm 32 would be the centerpiece of Child Coming Home's story. In essence, it's a story of remembering who your home is.
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Lord Sycamore: Understory
- Apr 22, 2020
- 2 min
My Hiding Place (Psalm 32): Lyrics
You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance.
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Lord Sycamore: Understory
- Mar 6, 2020
- 6 min
New Dawn: Story Under the Song
One day in fall 2017, my dad sent us a message along these lines: “I lost my job yesterday."
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Lord Sycamore: Understory
- Mar 5, 2020
- 2 min
New Dawn: Lyrics
So, you woke up today with no sunlight for your eyes. And you hope and you pray, keeping your feelings at bay, for an opened horizon.
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Lord Sycamore: Understory
- Feb 15, 2020
- 6 min
Come to Me: Story Under the Song
This is why the arrangement for “Come to Me” couldn’t be merely a single voice singing out. As much as I and the Singer may live in our head
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Lord Sycamore: Understory
- Feb 14, 2020
- 1 min
Come to Me: Lyrics
Matthew 11:28-30
World English Bible (WEB)
Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
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Lord Sycamore: Understory
- Feb 8, 2020
- 3 min
Aching to Be Had: Story Under the Song
For the Singer, the fresh wound of his girlfriend’s departure has prepared his heart to be open to a greater wound.
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Lord Sycamore: Understory
- Feb 7, 2020
- 1 min
Aching to Be Had: Lyrics
I’ve walked the world alone, and I’ve tasted all it has. But my heart is full of longing, longing that I cannot explain.
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Lord Sycamore: Understory
- Jan 18, 2020
- 7 min
New Apartment: Story Under the Song
Some lines, like "a bed of fire beneath the freezing cold," seemed to open up plenty of emotional and narrative space to work in.
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Understory Blog
- Jan 17, 2020
- 2 min
New Apartment: Lyrics
This is where my journey home started
Living on my own in a new apartment
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