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You are My Rock
This new song is called "You are My Rock. Talip wrote this song during Lent this past year. It comes on the heels of "In the Stillness"…
In the Stillness
It’s never a bad reminder to encourage others to try and find some solitude and seek out God’s peace and great love….
Storytelling with Mystic Mercy
In this episode, Talip shares his new song titled “It’s Just the Pouring Rain.” It’s inspired by how it rains on the just and the unjust. Or put another way, a response to seeing bad things…
Storytelling with Mystic Mercy
Talip is joined by his wife Cristal for a song titled Be on My Mind. Inspired by Psalm 8, Talip wrote this song as he was awestruck by the bigness of the universe. Also inspired by the prayer The Empty Vessel by…
Storytelling with Mystic Mercy
The latest from Mystic Mercy, There Was a Tree was birthed out of the COVID-19 pandemic. For Talip, it was an “ode to comfort, an ode to simple joy.” A moment for him to reset, as the world was crashing…
Episode 8: Earth Day
I wrote this song, Don’t Destroy, Create!, for Earth Day 2020 and also for my son. Last year was a rough one for Ezra and myself, considering all the normal duties and pressures of a parent child relationship but then also adding the extra stress from the unknown of the pandemic…
Episode 7: Easter Music
This song was written as a hope to come. It is actually about preparing to change. The truth is in the verse. It’s a desire to be transformed. Looking at the stuff that has been accumulating in my life, my grave, and realizing it’s time to empty the tomb…
Episode 6: Holy Week Music
As lent nears its end, I have really been focused on gratitude and its relationship to humility…
Episode 5: Music
This week’s song is about finding hope and strength in the times of wilderness. As we are in the Lenten season, we are in a constant state of selflessness and wandering and we are even confronting death and the limited time we have on this earth…
Episode 4: Music
I wrote this with the idea of impermanence in mind. One of the most powerful things about Ash Wednesday is that we are confronting the finitude of our time on earth and that can be overwhelming…
Episode 3: Music
This song is about trying to listen to God and be still in the midst of the constant noise. Whether that noise is coming from inside of me or from the outside…