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about

The seed of this track was planted at an Advent candle service I visited a few years ago. To some degree this is a song for that season.

But the metaphor of flame and light sparked my imagination to track the Flame through Scripture: revealing, refining, and sustaining. I wrote the first 3 verses in 2010 but it didn’t feel finished until I dug a bit deeper in 2014, finding the natural conclusion in Isaiah: the promise of the candle fulfilled in cosmically enduring nuclear fusion.

Even beyond the words, it seems that this song is about the Holy Spirit, and there's something about this song for me that points to the future. There's something in the margins that not carries an echo of the times we're living in, and also the future of the 'ekklesia'.

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A burning light, a fragile flame;
A hope that shines when all else has failed.
It’s been so dark, I long to see,
Waiting for fire God, waiting for fire;
We walk in shadows, come light the way,
Waiting for fire, God

Refining fire, consume my pain;
Consume my selfishness, all I hope to gain.
For what I lose, is yours to take;
Burn it away God, burn it away.
Forget perfection, I need grace;
Waiting for fire, God

A burning bush that doesn’t die,
Your flames of fire keeping me alive.
The death I die, the life I live;
Burning for you God, Burning for you.
So let me be the light we need;
Waiting for fire, God

A blazing fire, a shining sun,
Burning stronger than when it first began.
Light everlasting, the brightest dawn;
Waiting for fire God, waiting for fire.
Our days of sorrow will have an end,
Waiting for fire, God

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from Songs Of Resistance & Comfort Vol. I, released March 7, 2015

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