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Fighting Words
“This record is about a deeper sorrow and a higher hope,” says Ellie Holcomb of her latest album, C A N Y O N, the third full-length solo project from the singer/songwriter. For eight years, she recorded and toured full-time with her husband’s band, Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors, before stepping off the road when her first child was born. Her solo debut, As Sure As The Sun (2014), landed her a Top 10 hit at Christian radio with “The Broken Beautiful” and a GMA Dove Award for “New Artist of the Year.” Her critically-acclaimed sophomore LP, Red Sea Road, followed in 2017. In subsequent years, Holcomb has released two children’s books—each with a companion EP of original music written specifically for kids, the second of which earned her a Dove Award for “Children’s Album of the Year” in 2020. She’s consistently writing, touring and performing while raising three kids with Drew in her hometown of Nashville, Tennessee. (They’ve been dancing in the kitchen to the new songs on C A N Y O N, and she can’t wait to share them with the world.)
Ellie has performed with Third Day, MercyMe, Steven Curtis Chapman, Amy Grant, Chris Tomlin, and more.
I can water and pull out weeds, but ultimately, it’s God who causes a seed to break open and send forth a plant that turns into nourishment of beauty or flavor.
I have found my deepest comfort in remaining in God’s love and in His promises. I don’t know what you’re hoping or longing for, and I wish I could promise everything will work out exactly like you want it to, but I can’t. I can only say that deep down, I know my deepest wish is to not not have to face anything alone, and I find that desire granted over and over again in the love of God.
I love the idea that each day the skies are speaking to us, whispering and winking and coloring and shining the story of God’s love….new mercies every morning. Beauty in the orange and pinks and blues of each sunrise and sunset.
I can’t think of a more beautiful thing to sing about than the steady, sure love of God and the justice that is so close to God’s heart.
Rock. Fortress. Deliverer. These all feel like sturdy words assuring me that when I take refuge in the love of God, I will find something steady and sure.
On the days I forget what’s true, a verse like this is such a gift to me. It reminds me of who God is and what God says He will do, AND it helps my forgetful and often doubting heart really hold onto those promises.
I don’t know the cares and burdens your heart carries right now, but I pray this verse reminds us that we do not ever carry them alone. We can find rest and refuge in the steadfast Love of God.
It is you who keep my lamp burning, God. Please have mercy on us and keep turning the darkness into light.