Precious Gold • Pour yourself like precious gold
Into what is broken
Take these pieces, make me whole
Beauty still unfolding
Even in my wounds I see
Jesus, You’ve been good to me
Scars of gold
How You hold my heart together
Sew Your threads of faithfulness
Deep into my story
May my life be broken, blessed,
Shimmering with glory
CHORUS
Through Your tears I hear you pray
“Let this cup be taken”
Yet You drink it anyway
Though Your hands are shaking
Even in Your wounds I see
Jesus, You’ve been good to me
Scars of gold
How You hold my heart together
Someday soon I know I’ll see
Your scarred hands reach out for me
Healing for eternity
And love forever
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This place is not our home. I long for healing. I long for change. I long for less violence, less division, less shouting, less lines in the sand, less binary thinking, more safety from firearms, more deliverance from mental illness, more cures for cancer and diseases that wreak havoc on people’s bodies, more peace to come to war torn places in the world, more equality, more remembering that we are ALL beloved sons and daughters of the God who made us. I grow weary with the ways we so often forget all of this, and here, in Isaiah…we are given both grace AND hope. We’re assured all of us grow weary here on this side of heaven. All of us stumble and fall sometimes, but if we continue to set our hope on Love, we will find strength beyond our wildest imaginations…not power, not the outcomes we think need to happen, not an easy, pain or problem-free life, but a sense of strength that comes from the source of all light, love, and strength. Oh God, help us remember. Give us strength to walk in the way that You walk and to love in the way You love. #fightingwords #fightingwordfriday #fwf #christiantiktok #scripture #bibleverses #verseoftheday #inspiration #devotional #ellieholcomb
I have a bad habit of becoming friends with my counselors. I originally called Stephen a few months after I was hospitalized with meningitis in 2016. Months later I was still having awful dreams where I was back in the hospital and feeling like I was about to die, even though my physical health was back to normal. Stephen walked me through a pile of grief and taught me to see my emotions (sadness, hurt, loneliness, fear, gladness, anger and others) not as problems to be avoided, but as doors to understanding my story and my heart.
Life is hard, but it’s beautiful. Even if you yourselves are not walking through tragedy, chances are that someone in your life is. That has certainly been our story these last few years.
A few months ago, Stephen, no longer my counselor but now a dear friend and trusted confidant, vulnerably shared a few poems with me that he had written. I took a bunch of what he said, and added my own interpretations and music to them, then showed it to Ellie who helped me write the bridge. I called Stephen and said, “well, now you are not only a friend and poet, but you are a songwriter” and I shared this song with him.
I hope it resonates with you as you walk through whatever trials you or those you love are facing. -Drew
Make yourself low. Buy you a lantern,
So you can wrestle with the angels while you’re still bleeding
Carry the water, listen to the melodies.
Make yourself a lover of the mysteries.
“You’re gonna be okay” 🩵 Lauren Daigle and Ellie Holcomb penned the song “Be Okay” together after Ellie received a message from a terminally ill fan asking questions about heaven. The two wrote the simple, yet poignant ballad for that little girl. However, the moving original has since proven to be an anthem for countless hurting souls, as it extends an unwavering message of comfort and peace. Read more about the pair’s latest song at KLOVE.com ✨
Home is everything to Drew and Ellie Holcomb. It’s a place to put their feet up, hang out with family and friends, and get some much needed R&R in between tour dates. Their Nashville space also doubles as an archive of memories, in the form of old tour posters, art they collected while abroad, and souvenirs from family trips. “My dad had this thing when we would travel where he would give us a budget for trinkets,” says Drew. “He would always encourage us to buy something ‘real.’ So when I was eight years old, I bought a real tomahawk in Mesa Verde. I still have it!” Head to Billy Reid to read more about being At Home with the Holcombs.
Home is everything to Drew and Ellie Holcomb. It’s a place to put their feet up, hang out with family and friends, and get some much needed R&R in between tour dates. Their Nashville space also doubles as an archive of memories, in the form of old tour posters, art they collected while abroad, and souvenirs from family trips. “My dad had this thing when we would travel where he would give us a budget for trinkets,” says Drew. “He would always encourage us to buy something ‘real.’ So when I was eight years old, I bought a real tomahawk in Mesa Verde. I still have it!” Head to Billy Reid to read more about being At Home with the Holcombs.
Home is everything to Drew and Ellie Holcomb. It’s a place to put their feet up, hang out with family and friends, and get some much needed R&R in between tour dates. Their Nashville space also doubles as an archive of memories, in the form of old tour posters, art they collected while abroad, and souvenirs from family trips. “My dad had this thing when we would travel where he would give us a budget for trinkets,” says Drew. “He would always encourage us to buy something ‘real.’ So when I was eight years old, I bought a real tomahawk in Mesa Verde. I still have it!” Head to Billy Reid to read more about being At Home with the Holcombs.
Home is everything to Drew and Ellie Holcomb. It’s a place to put their feet up, hang out with family and friends, and get some much needed R&R in between tour dates. Their Nashville space also doubles as an archive of memories, in the form of old tour posters, art they collected while abroad, and souvenirs from family trips. “My dad had this thing when we would travel where he would give us a budget for trinkets,” says Drew. “He would always encourage us to buy something ‘real.’ So when I was eight years old, I bought a real tomahawk in Mesa Verde. I still have it!” Head to Billy Reid to read more about being At Home with the Holcombs.
Home is everything to Drew and Ellie Holcomb. It’s a place to put their feet up, hang out with family and friends, and get some much needed R&R in between tour dates. Their Nashville space also doubles as an archive of memories, in the form of old tour posters, art they collected while abroad, and souvenirs from family trips. “My dad had this thing when we would travel where he would give us a budget for trinkets,” says Drew. “He would always encourage us to buy something ‘real.’ So when I was eight years old, I bought a real tomahawk in Mesa Verde. I still have it!” Head to Billy Reid to read more about being At Home with the Holcombs.
Home is everything to Drew and Ellie Holcomb. It’s a place to put their feet up, hang out with family and friends, and get some much needed R&R in between tour dates. Their Nashville space also doubles as an archive of memories, in the form of old tour posters, art they collected while abroad, and souvenirs from family trips. “My dad had this thing when we would travel where he would give us a budget for trinkets,” says Drew. “He would always encourage us to buy something ‘real.’ So when I was eight years old, I bought a real tomahawk in Mesa Verde. I still have it!” Head to Billy Reid to read more about being At Home with the Holcombs.
Home is everything to Drew and Ellie Holcomb. It’s a place to put their feet up, hang out with family and friends, and get some much needed R&R in between tour dates. Their Nashville space also doubles as an archive of memories, in the form of old tour posters, art they collected while abroad, and souvenirs from family trips. “My dad had this thing when we would travel where he would give us a budget for trinkets,” says Drew. “He would always encourage us to buy something ‘real.’ So when I was eight years old, I bought a real tomahawk in Mesa Verde. I still have it!” Head to Billy Reid to read more about being At Home with the Holcombs.
Home is everything to Drew and Ellie Holcomb. It’s a place to put their feet up, hang out with family and friends, and get some much needed R&R in between tour dates. Their Nashville space also doubles as an archive of memories, in the form of old tour posters, art they collected while abroad, and souvenirs from family trips. “My dad had this thing when we would travel where he would give us a budget for trinkets,” says Drew. “He would always encourage us to buy something ‘real.’ So when I was eight years old, I bought a real tomahawk in Mesa Verde. I still have it!” Head to Billy Reid to read more about being At Home with the Holcombs.
Home is everything to Drew and Ellie Holcomb. It’s a place to put their feet up, hang out with family and friends, and get some much needed R&R in between tour dates. Their Nashville space also doubles as an archive of memories, in the form of old tour posters, art they collected while abroad, and souvenirs from family trips. “My dad had this thing when we would travel where he would give us a budget for trinkets,” says Drew. “He would always encourage us to buy something ‘real.’ So when I was eight years old, I bought a real tomahawk in Mesa Verde. I still have it!” Head to Billy Reid to read more about being At Home with the Holcombs.
God goes with us everywhere… He is with us on our best days and through our worst moments, the ones that we’d never want anyone to know about or see. He is with us, ready to love us, ready to guide us back home, to rest in His arms. If you are running today, or if you feel lost, I hope you’ll be reminded that you are not alone.
#fightingwords #fightingwordsfriday #fwf #bibleverses #inspiration #positive #verseoftheday #devotional #ellieholcomb
I think it’s easy for us to put our hope in a LOT of things, especially in an election season as we focus on who will be chosen to lead our country. I so often grow weary of the drama, the headlines, the daily 24hr reminders that we live in a broken world with broken systems and broken people, but this verse from Isaiah reminds my weary heart that our hope is not in this country, or our constitution, or in any leader from any side of the political lines. Our hope is in the Lord. Oh God, help us remember it, even as we watch the news and go out to vote. Help us move forward always in love, with both truth AND grace, and trust that one day all things will be made well. #fightingwords #fightingwordfriday #fwf #christiantiktok #scripture #bibleverses #verseoftheday #inspiration #devotional #ellieholcomb
Sometimes, when your heart feels heavy like a stone, God puts a rainbow on your bathroom floor. Love always moves to the lowest place, even to the grave.
It’s a wild wonder to me that this heavy week in our city comes crashing into the Easter story. Jesus was called a Man of Sorrows because the story his life tells is that as deep as pain can take us, Love’s a deeper well.
I had the honor and privilege of singing this song that I wrote with @chrisrenzema at the celebration of life of my favorite teacher from third grade, Mrs Cindy Peak. She named her precious daughter after me, and the world feels a little darker without her here. She shone a beautiful light. She’s healed and whole and alive , but our hearts still hurt down here. So many hearts still hurt.
I wanted to dive into the rainbow on the floor today, to drink it in deep, to remember that, even as we grieve, Love holds us there. God‘s love reminds us that the grieving is never the end.
Holding up anyone who is walking through loss or grief today . Let’s keep looking for the light , looking for the rainbows in the sky and on the bathroom floor, the mercies that meet us in the valleys . Comment below with a 🌈 if you are looking for the light today. I’ll hold you up in prayer as my grieving heart aches too. Thank goodness the rainbow reminds us , we never grieve alone, and we never grieve without hope.
And thank you, Chris, for coming to sing this beautiful song with me on that heavy day. Thank you @drewholcombmusic for playing our show by yourself in DC that night so I could come and hold onto to hope with people I love , even in the valley. So many mercies . Lord, give us eyes to see them .
It’s Good Friday. @bobgoff describes it like this :
“Darkness fell. His friends scattered. Hope seemed lost-but heaven just started counting to three.”
I love that the story of Easter holds space for us to sit in the tension of the losses and ache we feel here on earth, and the hope we have that’s grounded in an empty grave. But even as we sit in the tension, it feels like the earth is bursting forth with the song of resurrection ! I’m grateful for it . Oh God, help me listen to Spring’s Song, especially when the winters we weather in our souls feel long .
#springsong #sundayiscoming #easterstory #easter
Singing this verse this week over anyone who feels wounded in any way. I love that Jesus was and is a wounded healer. We have an advocate, a rescuer, who is well acquainted with grief, who was willingly wounded, who willingly entered the depths of pain any of us will ever experience in this life , and made a way out. The way is paved with Love, and I hope you know today that if you feel like you’re at the end of your rope, if you feel like the pain will crush you, if you feel like there is no hope….you’re not alone. Hold on. There is healing and wholeness ahead. Love is with you in the pain, and whispers that the pain , the sickness, the longing, the loneliness is never the end of the story. By His wounds, we are healed. Thank you God for entering our pain, our mistakes, our brokenness , our sickness, our despair, and for letting it break Your heart, and open the way back home. #fightingwords #fightingwordfriday #fwf #christiantiktok #scripture #bibleverses #verseoftheday #inspiration #devotional #ellieholcomb
So often I place my trust in myself, in my circumstances, in others around me, and guess what? Usually when I do this, I end up worried sick, but here is a beautiful alternative….a promise that we will be kept in perfect peace when we turn our minds to the Love of God and place our trust in the most trustworthy One. Help my mind be steadfast to turn to You, to talk to You, to lean on the everlasting arms and may I be surprised by joy as I am filled with perfect peace. #memorymondays #fightingwords #scripture #bibleverses #verseoftheday #inspiration #devotional #ellieholcomb
We have been having a great time on the Feels Like Home Tour so far and can’t believe there are only a handful of dates left. Florida and Alabama friends, come on out!
Every night on tour when I look out over a sea of lights, I am reminded that even in the darkest moments we are never alone. What a gift to sing these songs alongside of you. 💫💫💫
Hey friends!
If you are looking for last-minute Easter basket books that will help remind your children who made them and what they were made for, I’d love for you to check out my kids books – Who Sang The First Song? and Don’t Forget To Remember and their companion kid’s music – Sing: Creation Songs and Sing: Remembering Songs!!!
My hope for these books and these songs is that they will help children and the adults in their lives pay attention to the song that creation is singing each day. There are countless clues that point us to the truth, and my hope is that these books will be like a treasure map to help us all discover and remember the wonders of God’s love for us.
For some reason, I love being called “little flock”, it feels tender and endearing. I often feel like I need to be holding all the things together, and …I’m still dropping balls and feeling overwhelmed a lot of days, but I love this reminder that even as we carry all the things in our hearts and lives…and as we drop them, we can trust that we are carried and cared for by Love. I love that just as we are cared for, there is this beautiful call to care for others. THIS is the true treasure, pouring out what we’ve been given to any who may be in need. Have you experienced this ever? It is so heart expanding to move outside of your own story, knowing you are fully cared for and loved , to pour out into others. Lord, help me remember I’m a part of your “little flock” and that because of that truth, I can go out and give all that You’ve given me to others, to help anyone who feels lost or alone or overwhelmed or in need, come back home to Love.
#fightingwords #fightingwordfriday #fwf #scripture #bibleverses #verseoftheday #inspiration #devotional #ellieholcomb
