photo by Steve Sickman
love being in a room with people seeking and also has a cool way of disrupting some other [Sean] I think there could be a parallel, but at
trying to sort it out and believing God has what conversations. I just really love that because some point, the metaphor would fall apart like
we need. It’s an interesting experience, I don’t you can’t walk around that, it’s too consuming. they always do. But I am somewhat enamored
have that much experience being in rooms that A lot of my journey over the past few years with the idea of migration in nature, and that’s
big. In a way, you feel the energy and it’s so real, has brought that sentiment and whisper from where I think a lot of the poetry came from, the
but it’s also peripheral because there is just so God saying, “Hey, I know you’re standing on inspiration came from this idea that there are
much space between everybody and between the edge of the eve now, but I’m bigger than so many animals. The Arctic Tern is this bird
you and the band. Because the stage is so big, you think I am”. I think that’s the posture of a that flies and migrates from pole to pole across
you almost are on your own island listening to lot of the music. I think worship is this beautiful the whole world, across the globe. No one
that click. But it’s so beautiful, it’s just electricity. balance of desperation and adoration that both teaches them to do this, you can call it instinct
lead to the same place. So the songs hold if you want, but something bigger than them is
those two things together. helping them find their way home. I just think,
[WM] I am so excited to hear that your new
EP release, Bigger Than I Thought, releases in
June. What can you tell us about it?
“Wow the love of God is here in so many ways”.
[WM] The term, “The Great Migration”, is I feel like the love of God has created a center
usually used in reference to African Americans of gravity, a gravitational pull that is so strong.
[Sean] I think the title helps put some packaging leaving the American South (for the North) I don’t know if I could escape it even if I tried,
around it. It’s not a concept record in any way. during a large part of the 20 century, looking and I try all the time (laughs). So some of the
I think it’s the intersection of life and song and for a better life. You have a song of that same inspiration is just through that lens of everyday
God. I love that sentence, God is bigger than title on the record. What is your inspiration for I’m given this opportunity to pull from the Father
you think He is… that has a way of bringing this song? Are there any parallels? and to respond to that, and it’s full of so much
th
a lot of healing into certain conversations. It
potential. Every time I say “yes” to the whisper
June 2019
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