/// Reflections & stories
The heart behind the music — stories of faith, doubt, grace, and the sacred ordinary moments that shape the journey.
The first track of STAY isn't a song. The last one isn't either. They're me — Elias — talking. There's a reason for that, and it's the only reason the album in between gets to exist...
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Track 7 of STAY is the song I almost didn't put on the record. Worship music doesn't usually go to 3 AM. But that's where this character lives for one long night, and that's where a lot of us have lived too...
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Five words, said over coffee, by a character who left the faith years ago. I wrote that line for someone else to say, and then I couldn't put it down. It comes back four times across STAY. Here's why...
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STAY is a fourteen-track story about a worship songwriter named Wes Bennett, who spends one year quietly losing his grip on the words he sings on stage every night. People keep asking me if Wes is me. The honest answer is yes — and no...
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Sometimes the most beautiful songs are born from the deepest pain. When I sat down to write 'The Prodigal Road,' I was thinking about all the times I've strayed from God's path, and how His grace always calls us home...
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There's something sacred about working with your hands in the soil. When I tend to my lavender and rosemary, I'm reminded of how God tends to us — with patience, care, and unwavering love...
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Last week, I found myself staring at my prayer journal at 3 AM, unable to write a single word. Sometimes the songs come easily, but sometimes the words feel stuck, just like our prayers...
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Leonard Cohen once wrote about singing 'broken hallelujahs,' and I've been thinking about how our most powerful worship often comes from our most wounded places...
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